Tuesday, January 25, 2022

grave

It’s never been about me, 

the litany of the undertow

a literature of the outsides

the scheming between skins,

a story worried away in scrapes and

whittlings, this voice of wounds wormed 

through the earth, this want for 

words and reason. It isn’t as if

I knew, unaware as I am of 

the endless implications, 

how it seems or sounds,

my laden tongue and untuned 

ear wearying the world away.

Each day the grave I’m digging 

an emptying of eulogies 

imagined, artless and alone,

as the world picks these bones.

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