02-13-2023, 11:00 AM
the job is
to wake
dreams of dead brothers, dead sisters
leaning out
sun sucked up freeway roar
hiding along the eastern horizon
of sidewise light
until
presto change-o
primed with traps along the river Oh
no catching
this unlover
this circumflexed thief
slips to fall
down
into rooted bottom land
skin licks the earth dry and
centers
the engine of tears
and briar patch kingdom
to welcome you
to the garden, (don’t hang around
or God will take you)
and gotten, be at rest
grow a bone tree
in the bog
to wake
dreams of dead brothers, dead sisters
leaning out
sun sucked up freeway roar
hiding along the eastern horizon
of sidewise light
until
presto change-o
primed with traps along the river Oh
no catching
this unlover
this circumflexed thief
slips to fall
down
into rooted bottom land
skin licks the earth dry and
centers
the engine of tears
and briar patch kingdom
to welcome you
to the garden, (don’t hang around
or God will take you)
and gotten, be at rest
grow a bone tree
in the bog

