Earthly Meditations by Robert Wrigley

Author:Robert Wrigley
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2010-01-15T04:30:00+00:00

The Bramble

Cathedral of thorns, brambly fist—

how do the snakes get along such thoroughfares,

that deep, spiny mind with no thought

other than swallowing the world.

My arms are crosshatched with scratches

and purpled by juice, my back flayed

like a flagellant’s, but I’m not stopping.

The jars I filled with berries look bloody

in the distance—peck of bruised hearts,

glass vat of gizzard and lung,

easy picking at the thicket’s edge.

Now I know what the sparrows whisper,

those little breathy drums, damning and damning.

It’s a car, old and black. Some odd blink

of sun shone off a shard of glass

and drew me on. I went to the barn

for machete and shears, for heavy gloves and a hat,

and now this shadowy corridor, this hallway of hooks,

this ramp of knives onto soil unwalked

in years. It bleeds pure black under my boot.

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