Saturday, August 25, 2012

Wounded and Extraordinary


All of us are wounded and extraordinary –
carried to our fates
as if by serviceable beasts  

who mostly can be counted on to tend us:
conscientious porters sweeping, turning on

the lights, generally putting things to rights.

Unsuspecting days and unexamined nights
become our fare until, perhaps responding
to some small involuntary dare,

we disappear – no longer
here or there: replaced by space.
It isn’t terrible that we don’t leave a trace.









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