Friday, October 24, 2014

Everything Lives at Night in Secret Doubt


The hour clothed in remote catastrophes
Has arrived

And here I am
Singing

O my friend

It just so happens that I’m tired of being
In this room of yesterdays
Where you keep a couple hidden thoughts

Yes it’s true that I’m the poet
Who casts irregular shadows
Across your beautiful face

Already there never was a choice
Ideas hop around like toads
Stars vanish

Intransigent flowers
Grind their teeth at the hour of ultimatums

Listen to their sinuous whispers in the dark
Their thin roots that curl like hair
Falling into beds and sinking into pillows

Please take this boutonniere of failed enumerations
Please accept at the top of your lungs
This nosegay of deprecated grammar

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