Yesterday, 06:42 PM
Silverado
We get all of this
very wrong—nature and its names
I mean—okay, there are more gruesome sins
and I won’t take your whole life but
does even God’s must useless rock
deserve the weight of words, after all
I met a careless squirrel
just today, she was a baby
running like a fever through the streets
until of course
she wasn't, and it struck me
with less force than it did her,
that Silverado
is a stupid name for anything
and so is squirrel, and
maybe she was dignified
as death made her a pancake, maybe
in their language, her name
means the sound of flowers opening, possibly
we should reconsider
what could make a man hear someone singing
in the heartless dark
and call it mourning dove.
We get all of this
very wrong—nature and its names
I mean—okay, there are more gruesome sins
and I won’t take your whole life but
does even God’s must useless rock
deserve the weight of words, after all
I met a careless squirrel
just today, she was a baby
running like a fever through the streets
until of course
she wasn't, and it struck me
with less force than it did her,
that Silverado
is a stupid name for anything
and so is squirrel, and
maybe she was dignified
as death made her a pancake, maybe
in their language, her name
means the sound of flowers opening, possibly
we should reconsider
what could make a man hear someone singing
in the heartless dark
and call it mourning dove.