no-one escapes
the silence of
the past, what is
hidden behind
a narrative,
what we regale
around tables
claiming it's fact
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you dig a trench,
fill in gravel
for road run-off,
each shovel feels
like dad handled
it, the way he
dug to bury
clouds in Europe
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weather is a
context like the
market, like our
evening news,
like politics,
the light changes
your golden hair
Margarete to
the ashen hair
of Shulamith
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telling someone
you love you are
leaving their town
is shorthand for
saying you both
must move on, must
accept relief
never lasts from
what we avoid
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the lines you draw
showing his hands
and profile are
shadows, they are
the sun crossing
his sky the way
time sets an edge
around each thing
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the plane fades and
birdsong resumes,
the pause asking
why we intrude,
what our noise adds
to the darkness
circling our small
and pale blue dot
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margins hold the
creases of a
paper's use, of
strange mutterings
that hold a truth
we can only
maintain if we
learn to hold it
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you do not see
charcoal smudges
or tracks on his
arms so his loud
drunkenness seems
a relief, his
dysfunction just
a new absence
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moonlight across
waves, flames throwing
embers above
a beach - there are
two moons circling
every heart,
what is too far
what is too close
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there's no solace
feeding chickens
when they eat their
eggs, the way us
humans devour
our future for
a hungry past,
its delusions
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the blanket has
held many dreams,
its edges show
the fraying of
arguments past,
of ghost lovers,
one can't clean house
throwing it out
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we all steal from
other cultures,
borrow against
the shortfall in
whatever we
think is our own -
this identity
our lives assume
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the mist from surf
obscures edges
of hills observed
inland, the way
my worry makes
you hesitate,
start to question
your commitment
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the island is
a beer garden
juxtaposed to
simmering sand
and waves we surf,
you sense the lie -
how we live heads
down, our mouths shut
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dusk light slanting
sideways across
the moor make each
shadow appear
more than what blocked
the sun, as if
what's little could
be infinite
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words can become
too explicit,
pointing out our
spiritual
nudity so
we despair of
dressing ourselves,
Brecht's asking for
a leaf, Celan
seeing no tree
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the rain and chill
make the quiet
feel deep where you
rest, you left so
many places
never going
back - the war, a
camp, and now the
way we forget
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it's not clear why
red wine tastes so
good when you are
tired, unable
to sit still and
clumsy, why the
holding off of
sleep has terroir
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the next day one
has forgotten
most what happened
the day before,
months later you
observe fabric
stitched in a quilt
that lets you sleep
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we argued and
sloughed away from
each other like
old skin or like
trucks up-shifting
and speeding past
us on the road
marking our thoughts
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