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A Cargo of Green Hearts
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8/26/2018

8/26/2018

 
glaciers through the
valley poured 
cold muscle
rounding it so that
water could slide
through sans thought.
we mimic the artistry 
when making little
human things
sometimes approximated
with grace more often
jumbled and smashing
things jealous
as children. we don’t really
know time or the heart
we climb these
peaks as if we could rise out
disasters we have made
by exertion alone.
wind haunts us. lifts our
souls a little. reminds us
where the kite strings
are attached.
and in storms:
what it would take
to break them.

08/22/2018

8/22/2018

 
I am thinking this morning
of all the bridges I burned
in this short life—the human ones
of course: in the heart’s warehouse
of regrets bricks and steel float
like feathers but words sing
like dropped anvils, piercing
calls, like those of lost hawks.
our hearts, I think, are more
readily made to forgive others
than ourselves; the dead don’t come
back in familiar form
they wear new masks but speak
old words we should recognize but
too often don’t. if only we were like
the trees: in death giving back all
to whatever we had choked
and shaded the light out of
a green laughter running over our
toppled backs.

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