Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Shiva

 

23 November 2021


The shift of tenses

“Her avocation chemo”

Didn’t want to quit


Violence in the verbs

“She wanted to drift away”

Not to want again


Won’t want  can’t want  want

Not in death  verbs stop working

Retire to watch sun


Rise and fall  “she was

A terrible steersman great

Stroker”  loved shoulder


Muscles (about which

None of her wry ironies)

I would want to hear


Those again  sonic

Waves of “I don’t want to talk

About it” with her


Constant querying

Affective shadow boxing

“You want me to lie?”


Hitchhiked Austria

At 17  not to have

Parents frees you to


Fear their past exile

Terrorized by audience

Pretend they’re not there


We both forgot what

We read  read it again like

Time didn’t unspool


Banana peels stuck

To the cement of foreign

City streets  she could


Breathe from belly to

Chest  connect heart to shoulder

Hour glass over.


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