Saturday, September 29, 2012

Consonance


the consonance of rain that calms
a convulsive river                                like how
a warm hand settles shuddering grief


                                    a form of translation


the borrowed light of the moon
gives it its lost look
its one stone face
                                    eyeless             sober


                        fluttering over us tonight
helicopters shuttle between the collapsed flow
of the highway and the hospital

            their insipid music drowns the barking
of a red fox dying hidden in the cornfield

                                    in the periodic silences
I hear the plea weaken and cease.


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