Monthly Archives: November 2009

No Ark

Implicit in every word
Is the danger of being heard, as
On a sunlit afternoon
The rain ruined against
Her brow, and how she
Pronounces the coming wet
Might yield a gentler storm;
When all is flood,
How the arc gets named
Might defer a differing frame.
So tonight, she speaks
Of revelations, and I turn
To watch it in the clouds:
Implicit in every bird
Is the stranger being heard.

Note To Self

Should you wake
One morning on a small patch
Of green where love
Had grown careless out of neglect,

Should you froth
To consciousness beside
The sea of foam that
Swallowed your golden fleet,

I’ve only got a few words to say:

Stop drowning.
And for God’s sake,
Do something about the lawn.
It’s a mess.

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That’s it. I’m done.