Sunday, April 26, 2009

poem #4

Out in chill midnight mist
Deep in wood and burdened
This onus, this charge

Guilt glistening forehead
Stink of feverish salt
Breath and heart competing

Lugging, pulling, dragging
Plastic wrapped monolith
The dead weight of uncertainty

Dig until torn palm skin
Neck cranes reigned by paranoia
Untold tensions and exasperated strains

O wasted pains of vain labor
Never ceasing until the dirty deed is done...
But dirty deeds are never done

In the art of intervention
Reason is impotent
Yet denial cannot hide what is naked to the mind:

No matter how deep the plot the dogs will still smell her

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