A Cargo of Green Hearts
~POEMS~
on the beach awaiting the next
shipwreck mercy I read of base jumpers raining to their deaths like bullets parachutes spilling confetti now there are car accidents lining up on the guardrails just you check the news a woman froze to death on Mount Adams wind crushing the print of her face in snow as the rest of us dined made love and listen I'll tell you how my grandmother slipped out of this world the way a vixen slips between trees on a crisp morning she was there then wasn't and so it goes a catamount kills a bicyclist out west no reason cancer is a shadowed stranger waiting behind trees downtown time has it in for us all & yes with these words I stick your blind finger in the socket that could shut or open a flailing heart but for despair or love if loving you imagine viscerally the fall bones powdered against schist how sad your face caked in zigzagged daggered rime the giddy zither of car metal before gravity marries mass the lean of a bicycle standing alone in a corner a trackless route through the trees the fox takes before it removes its foxness from your knowing with a permanence that will not go away or make sense but if you know these things and believe and in knowing believing burn perhaps also you see this is exactly what you walked the beach to witness the tide oh the tide everything it takes away yes but also everything it washes up. Comments are closed.
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