Monday, October 18, 2021

dry click

Comes the day past due

flame tongued and kindling boned

passing skins and sparks,

whetted on wild grays and

the too soon blues, settling 

between mirror and razor,

thriving in the bindings of

speech and want, the volume of

the vessel, the swaying of the bridge.

Pine needle brushwork painting

certainty out of silhouettes 

as the word come down goes around

again, the answer inscribed on

mortal punctuation, no more

name, no more traveler, 

no more leaning between 

the reachings of light.

This lost day, this absent bullet,

all out of bangs and bucks.

I pause a moment and 

again it begins to go.

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