Tuesday, January 30, 2007

What I'm Trying to Do at 6 a.m.

What I’m Trying to Do at 6 a.m.


I try to mirror the mud and leaves.

Show the darkness of honeybees,


the brightness of black holes

and light fires for the cold


where the graying ash that gasps its

last breath upon the fire grate and


the graying ember that hears its sizzle,

re-kindles and shines its light into


the dark corners of obscure night.

To release the laughing grass


and boisterous clouds and bury

the dead in living shrouds.


I try, try, and try to hear the shoe

in the closet licking its wounds.

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