A Nasib/Rahil-inspired sequence

Wednesday Poem (Audio)

I

a shrinking circle of dishwater
snaps like a summer window closing
phantom gasp a moving on
china wrapped in tissue in cardboard
boxes marked with indelible ink

II

I hear the brook
Repeating whispers

Like a daddy long-legs
tripping over my hair

Like a deep tremor’s
Slow build and sudden stop

A burst from my motorcycle’s engine
The wheels fling mud back to the brook

III

Newspapers are wedged in his mailbox like acorns in a squirrel’s cheek. I wear his missing autumn like a stole-fox, bullet hole—until Easter.

(An Intimate Retribution. Wigestrand forlag, 2009)

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I hope you have a great week!

Warmly,

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