Preparing for the Fire

Even the smallest bits, invisible to the eye, belong
To us and we to them. Rain is the same.


Leaving this place is hope for a red morning.
A moth pounds the window, in love with human light.


I walk through the front door, and you say
One day you will wake to find yourself finished.


I walk through the front door. Look at the time,
You say. Look at the time.


Your bags and my thousand flaming trees are full.
Hills fall over each other, rumpling their outfits.


In the ghosts between clothes and skin, so much.
So much, and our cold forest warms itself with itself.
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Published on March 05, 2010 06:28 Tags: chapbook, elegy-for-the-builder-s-wife, poem, poetry
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C.A. THIS IS BEAUTIFUL! Something warming itself with itself, no matter what, that fire in everything. I love it.


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