Black Dog, Black Night by Paul Hoover

Author:Paul Hoover
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2011-12-28T00:00:00+00:00

IF I KNEW

Drawing the bow intensely then suddenly releasing. No arrow. But feeling little pain. Maybe the arrow secretly shot back, but I don’t know. Sometimes I choke when I swallow something. Don’t know where it runs to. A heat between my chest and my belly. I have been neither waiting nor expecting very much. But how come that arrow still comes back? The darkness flows into secret corners. I crouch like a rock or root. Someone sits on me, mumbles and spits, then leaves. The night gnashes and grinds. I don’t want to be alone, to be the bare branch waving alone, like a cow or buffalo waves its tail. I want to say something for someone. But no one is here, or they are here but I didn’t know. Don’t know what to say. Everyone counts their steps on their own separate path. The sound of counting makes it into a path. I don’t know how to count or I count wrong. Do I have no path? Here are the breaking lines on the dike where my self is flooding. Why do I stand on the bank of my river life, frightened to jump into it, even just to get wet? Who doesn’t dare to swim doesn’t dare to sink!

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