Thursday, February 23, 2023

attention deficit

The day goes gray as the days are wont 

dusk comes with all the fixins, swift wings and 

furtive rodents, fast traffic shaking 

the walls with the songs left 

thumping in its wake, the note held

too long, too much sound to leave

much for the music to be. It stands to reason

there will be some shifting in the sands,

what passes for castles collapsing, 

the tower taken by the tide, built

bit by bit of this knowledge 

that give and take taking more,

the sky lit like a mirror or 

clear like a glass gazing against 

the remembered bones of this slip thin self, 

touched by the givens that 

gave out, the reasons on the label

read for this labile animal a broken seal

the spirit a fizzle of this burning bridge of flesh,

furls of a flag snapping aware

its truth is to wear the wind.

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