Thursday, April 26, 2007

STATIONED AT THE WATCHTOWER WATCHING

Tonight we are tuning the watchtower’s staircase
to a certain song of the sparrow…

a beacon fire inside its gullet…

its nest a heliotrope of musk. Don’t
be afraid.

Unthread the horrid whoosh of panic…

behind you, a dusky light-box swings
from the deer’s neck; his hooves
are static flickering.

Our cloaked maneuvers are long. We are
wearing our ropes. It is cold.

Think of Gretie’s garden. How one bucket
swung towards disintegration;

how champagne poured from the birch tree
& it tasted like the stars.

2 comments:

zachary said...

everything that you've written is faboolous lauren. and i'm terribly jealous. i await each and every post that you make.

amanda said...

Yeah, I love this, the end.