Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Motionless Under Our Lids Forever


Congratulations lady for the inconspicuously
Malodorous  flowers of Chinese privet in your hair
It’s time my dear we take our place on a known
Scale of things O it’s time we situate our distances
Within such measures as we are wont to have in this
Great communion of eyes closing as they watch us
We who feel strangely anonymous and empty like
Two sparrows yes the heavy stones at the front door
The cypress planks put down against spring mud
There are no more paddle boats no transatlantic
Futurism no horoscopes nor even brief similitudes 
Yet we go down the levee nonetheless and see
Tugs push barges past Vicksburg it's true
We wait for us from several points of view

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