Poetry
The old man/
plies his trade, his wages earned: a clean boat./
Is labor prayer?
As I walked to Lake Divine, I remembered I’d forgotten/
To fill my pockets with rocks. I’m the type who forgets
Boy, he said, you got to fill a graveyard/
before you know this business
Would that our breasts were like oysters/
Briny, lustrous. Maybe not filter feeders,
Call it an exercise in restraint/
The angle of ascent is sharp/
Like the sloped ceiling
The girl in black dress and tights stands behind the fawn,/
hands clasped, their white blur forming almost/
a heart.
one of the benefits of the disease –/
you learn new words. You/
also learn new meanings for/
old words.
like light is/
like my speckled skin: brim/
and brink. verge.
there will be/
no burial burn/
the body cancer/
cratered