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11/24/2018

11/24/2018

 
the moon is full of fingernails
that scrape the earth to the bone
         a frozen branch is of the dead
an unsounded zero
       I was woken by the rattling
teeth of icicles and drew
the quilt around my nose
       the bus stop down the road
was deposited there from
another planet
      I miss my home
the previous line is thematically
consistent
      the street lamps are trying
my breath escapes me
visually:
a reminder
     hold me closer love
the trees make me a
ware of nudity 
     sssssh.

November, 2018

11/23/2018

 
​by convention I don’t give thanks in
November, month of dry bones
and shattered doors. the month
is a gravely long word and things
are meant to be burnt in it
for warmth or to shed weight.
one cannot lug everything through
winter and sometimes even
children must be left behind.
poems shall be burned for
the sake of fingertips— burned unread.
if there is a time for accepting
that the dead are actually gone
it shall be covered in broken
sticks with a beard of frost.
unlike Christ it will become
part of the earth and
remain so. it is a test.
let me be grateful in the spring
if I am still human.

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