 |
Wet pressure music, what a steamy boot- to-floor tune. Barn walls shiver, this candle can't admit her headache--too much cold air leaking through young fingers snapping the band--she blows her own burn out and we are still Till the wax hardens. Not a single penny to prop the door and we girls are full out winded. Wicked and running and miming sleep, we hatch ask the grape vines to braid us in and sprawl. We with our faces pressed to pondwater kissing, the almost-practice, tuck our arms in, nervous to flip on the thick needlebeds. A tinkling refrain--the storm bursts in the pines: rain's synopsis, rounding the bend toward the fugitive sun.
Someone is seeking, we think we are hidden, not buried under the farm-- one frantic chicken sniffing the ground scratching at crusted fissures its red comb from corner to corn. In this game I trip and try to stand and the mud sucks my hands, whispers: gotta catch the outbound bus. morning never comes on gradual-- Across the clear black I can see the city's lightcloud hanging. Muck raking the barnyard, broken silo sagging, restless pig chewing his own pink hooves. The house table needs washing but waits like a secret star. Not clumsy, not dirty, just every day of feeling the same fraying scrubbrush-- --I am running, this road, it barely reflects on the compass glass. So many locusts crowding the dark, so many stalks bending back to the worn porchlight.

Information Fiction NonFiction Poetry Music Feedback
|