Monday, April 26, 2010

Gloaming

Hello from concrete. The alliances,

the overlaps are always born. A wife runs

from clay, nowhere she runs, with bright neglect


unlike one that weakens from the fittings of drums.

She hides lone yeas and odd nays. Hides no

with yes, and in hiding no she hides hello.


She avoids the languidness of balance.

She sinks into deeper earth less calm

than good beasts floating to cosmos dimly.


Years lost she runs in noise and armament.

She doubts the small halts of earth that throb her

with bricks and breakers, breakers or blunt drear


out of soaks in drums and tongues, the shortest drum

and the slimmest tongue, the thin tongue that disdains.

By sunlight, truths numb speech as it fusses.


The carnal ending is someone’s,

in the lifetime when the bestial drum renounces

those makers departing, in solitude, without skin.


Dogged maid running by the womb

and still in clay and calmness and still

of calm the never-darkening death,


inane, and still the slave and still her name,

gaze from this vacant sewer. What solitude,

skinless, won’t censor it from the clothed slab?

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