Thursday, May 07, 2015

A Chill on a Hot Day



What do you want to know that you never do?
Shining through everything you left
shaded blue something gruesome and worn
hamfisted and warm begging for your stories
uncle max auntie min they want to hear about
the night when you and jim were shining
and maybe dynamiting or with sue
the fowl scattered when you flew back in
and you were light as a cockadoodledoo
no no you argue it wasn't me because I knew
your folks when you were two and we
never spoke then when I let them both in
before they were broken something you
could cry about remembering ghostly
like a chill on a hot day when you look
for the sun and he's not there just a wing's
edge just the brush of air and the ball
hovering mid rush you never will touch
because it's grown tall the tale you tell
from small to now when you don't know
rides eddies in the air and you don't know
hides the skies and you don't know who
waits all night because you never do


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