Sunday, 19 January 2025

1 New Poem

A Long Epilogue

A passing of phones poles,
windbreak trees on winter morning,
comes draped in waning thoughts

Of how we’re all going crazy here,
in boxes moving, static,
voyaging out at dawn’s light to

Do something we scarcely remember
as having worked its way
into etchings of memory:

Springs that ran dry to drink,
words that lasted until
the flattery came out of them.

. . .

I walked until there was no deal,
no bloody shirt treaty left unsigned,
no hill left to take in anger,

And watched the snakes and sinners
perched upon the cliffs,
shedding their skin-clothes until

Born anew in summer rain,
fixed faces were above us
laughing that we would

Never see their graces again
never speak the same verses
of pale moonlight pure.

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