Unfastened

Poems and prattles

 

40 June 6, 2008

Filed under: Poems — Laurie @ 3:53 pm

the land takes one step toward the moving boat
the boat slows and the dead lake from its corners calls
all at once the boy scouts and cans of soup

all at once the birch shimmer real as the sky
our thoughts have brought us lonely so far
the photo filled with primeval green

hides the way we itched and the billowing
mirrored in the water below
displaces the sails above us

speak I will tell myself when I return
after all this time say something

 

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