Counting Descent by Clint Smith

Author:Clint Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781938912665
Publisher: SCB Distributors

Canon

Our stars weren’t meant for

their sky. We have never known

the same horizon.

On Observing My Home After the Storm

I.

The smell

so pungent you can see it,

the fermentation of sky

prickling at your skin.

An alloy of brackish & sewer water

stinging nostrils, the residue of cries

for help.

Eyes unprepared for this

sort of wreckage.

The maggots demarcate the space

between what was & never will be

again.

Steel door hinges split at the seam.

Every wall, a groundswell of lusterless green.

Glass has meandered

across the floor,

a cacophony of shattered skin.

The overturned dinner table

sits on its side

as if to protect the rest of the house

from the night it knows will come.

The floorboards do not creak,

they whimper—

distraught by all they could not prevent.

II.

But what are these words

but an empty lyric?

What then is anything,

beyond the language we give it?

What else do we have

to describe the carnage we see

but all that is woefully inadequate?

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