Thursday, April 26, 2012

The Walk



 The sullen eye rolls over an advent of crossings
                                  And she said/ let the light wash you
over to be sated/so I did

now there’s this itchy-thing in my skin
        crawling on my attention/telling me it is home,
this/nebulousness of infinity…
                                               
                   And the early/birds taste a new rapture
while singing rubitin/as raggedy as they can
Yet, she doesn’t turn up her sundress/it’s so easy to be burned…

And someone’s gotta walk me home/
                gotta lead me through this traverse…

But I’d rather watch from the nest/ to lie within her in spirit
    than to subtract the numerable/ bullets from their cushions
mapping themselves into a skull/as if stars, as if comets, as if…

                           It was joy/they were spilling all over
her from their soft little pockets/they plucked
 the day right out of its own mouth/ snatching the tongue…

the moons, their mothers/getting gurbed and done-up
                           from the fists of our sons/too afraid to leave anything
amiss in their souls/ and still we cast out to them with slurs

Now someone’s gotta walk us home/
                gotta lead us through this traverse…

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