Wednesday, October 15, 2014

As If Part of Me Were Leaving


Tonight the redbrick streets of Vicksburg
Go serenading
Very gently on the brink of sleep

Something radiates
The heat of a smooth stone

I’d like to stand where your thoughts
Transcribe their passage
Where your hot unharnessed words
Scar my body with the smallest epic

Yet it’s all so unlikely little sweetie
That you’ll ever leave me anything
As heavy as the stone slab of a soul
I’m supposed to be satisfied with

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