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Monday Morning
No temple but this house
filled with the clutter
of two tired parents and one happy child
No scripture but these thoughts
jumbled and clumsy
on an otherwise empty Monday morning
No prayer but this movement
drawing my body gently
from the discomfort of its dormancy
No sound but this breathing
lying near the fire
resting in the emptiness I created
No bell but this pot lid
ringing as I lift it
to scoop cold oats into my bowl
No temple but this house
filled with the clutter
of two tired parents and one happy child
No scripture but these thoughts
jumbled and clumsy
on an otherwise empty Monday morning
No prayer but this movement
drawing my body gently
from the discomfort of its dormancy
No sound but this breathing
lying near the fire
resting in the emptiness I created
No bell but this pot lid
ringing as I lift it
to scoop cold oats into my bowl
Literature
You Underneath
You
underneath,
brushing the willow,
swallow many branches, while
brushing the willow
underneath
you.
Silence,
they hear the
scratch, the bark
at the back of your throat.
Scratch the bark,
they hear the
silence.
You
underneath
brushing the willow,
silence!
They hear the
scratch, the bark
at the back of your throat;
scratch the bark
they hear the
silence,
brushing the willow
underneath
you.
Literature
Mayfly
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When we were mayflies our wings were
worn from wire screens, but the tentative
beats of your belly chimed like iron.
And it occurred to me that through
the breeze of burning leaves our eyes
were open to wasps and weeds.
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Literature
ride on the underground
hunched creature rattling:
a snake in a rat-trap
shrieking like a banshee it
throbs along a thick tunnel
licks the curving walls away
sweating against them, eats
through gravel, wormlike—
skeleton bones howl and snap:
taca-ta-taca-ta-taca-ta
spitting through a dank fissure
clenched to ranks of tracks.
inside, hanging people shudder
swaying together, knocked
like stones in a tumbler;
old arthritic bones
cracking and twisting
a cold metal body.
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Monday morning alone.
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