Come on All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder

Author:Matthew Zapruder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

Paper Toys of the World

Friends, what is beauty? Right now for me these paper replicas

I glanced at in a book I did not buy. Paper Toys of the World. I hardly

think of anyone but myself. For a little while right now

I know many tiny pagodas were built with knowledge they are not

meant to last. There was paper and there was time someone

had to consider, time no one was in crisis, time no one was dying.

I think each breath the maker sent through them is like

a trusting class of architects sent through an ancient building

where used to be copied terrifying decrees. I bet people

who build pagodas are people who think they won’t ever see them.

That thought is true, people know people and I am one. I like

saying this morning in Houston contains many tiny pagodas of wishing

for better things for people we do not know. I like knowing

somewhere social workers consider their clients. Last night Tonya said

I worry too much, she said it softly and firmly because she hardly knows me

and knew I worry I worry she’s wrong. Here she is in my thoughts

along with all this beautiful silver fear, beautiful because

it with a silver penumbra protects the family readying itself

for school and work. So I choose to believe and choose to ask you

to believe it too. Today we are driving through the Painted Desert

where a few people live and breathe, it seems possible, Vic says look out

the window and feel and that’s what I’m going to do.

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