Saturday, June 29, 2013

Wearing Our Best Grimace


We live here in this quiet city waiting for what?
Storms arrive and take away our electricity
And we grind our teeth in the absolute tinnitus
Quietude of a house growing slowly warmer
All day and we smile and say welcome to
Mississippi but really but rather our spirits long
To find totality and to traverse their dreams
Whose tongue? Whose dark sayings will do?
Who will cleanse our hearts one at a time just
Amid those narrow wails that undermine night?
And who doesn’t erect themes that ripen like
Two bodies in carnal vain? Our love shatters
Ten years of rainbows and three solid hours
Of green lightning and torrential rain we think

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