A Thing Like That

 

Sensitively monumental! –
the thing that breathes
and stands and greets –
disarms and renders angry

seizures into amicable

rhythms in the blood –
that argues flood into
a reasonable flow – extracts

the dense collective sense

of random heads and turns it
into tremolo – an ornament
of tune – moon-threnody –

a melody that orbits

in voluptuous extravagance
erasing dread. Build a thing
like that around the dead.











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