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Sunday, December 5, 2010

made long ago and elsewhere

with little reason, 
gone running 
give the
best bestial cry and 
issue a less than solid
ultimatum — 
lives hang
in the grey haze
the grassy base
the torn, thorny tube
 
while your insistence
walks down a long
narrow hall
plenty else waits
in various 
unknown rooms
around unlit
corners 
wishing you
would do for them 
 
dependence and you
are dependence
elsewhere
someone says,
"this is a trial"
and the curtain
shimmers
across the side
of your path
 
you could go there
or here or here
none is
more insistent
and on your
choice may hang
nothing less
than a swoosh or
a creak —
may 

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