Elegy Owed by Hicok Bob;

Author:Hicok, Bob;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

The heart of the soul of the gist of the matter

In college, I stole a human heart from the anatomy lab

and bowered it in a bird’s nest that had fallen, I make

symbols, not whales, plagues, thistles, stars

are the moms and pops of everything

except themselves, inanimate’s the one word

I’d execute by guillotine to excise the lie

of lifeless, since bite into any bit of dirt

or dust and you’ve got a gob full of electrons

and quarks, the whole menagerie of matter’s

in there, pinging and swooping, steel’s got a pulse

as far as I’m concerned, and while I’m French

Revolutioning my way across the lexicon, I’ll nix

miraculous too, for what isn’t, what stone

doesn’t do a number of things I can’t

very well, avalanche and slingshot and skip

at the shore, where compared to my one, water speaks

with infinite mouths, and the simplest chair

is sometimes the most mystical being

in a room, animate with the knowledge

of how to be wood and supportive, alive

with the atomic breath of being, this is god,

small g, no Bible, Koran, I stole a human heart

from the anatomy lab in college and bowered it

in a bird’s nest that had fallen, they looked

lost alone but thrived as partners, the dead heart

and dead home alive with the promise of shelter

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