Monday, February 01, 2016

Cedar Cigar Box


You can insert any memory you like here—

Maybe something you read in a history book
A dry galantine served to obese monks
Doomed for the guillotine three days hence

The proud head of a galloping pony
You saw at a county fair when you were five

The gallant lungs of a mudfish breathing
Hoarsely—anything you can remember
However big or small will fit in here

The size of a loud laugh suddenly
Broken by a lover’s frown
A horse neighing a cat purring
The shape of a fist or a violin

The carnivorous eye of a panting sparrow
You saw in the desert near Mosul
During a combat patrol

Everything that has passed through
The forehead of a lonesome buzzard

Every danceable if not dancing decision
You wish you’d made before the lid fell

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