Tuesday, September 25, 2007

there are things i used to say that i don't say anymore

the loose sausage,
cream of mushroom and milk.

mash,
stir on open flame.

I am in the corner
on the floor

stroking Colby’s black mange;
looking out doors.

mid-morning breakfast
with beer is stark

quivering on the edge
of a cymbal crash.

I know this is not
the way.

not officially.
but mathematics

are only parallel
figures

and sums no longer
equal

crisp leaves that float
gingerly to slick blades.

1 comment:

amanda said...

I think this is nice. The movement is well-measured and the lines are surprising, while all seeming to fit in the universe of the poem.