Elegy for a Broken Machine by Patrick Phillips

Author:Patrick Phillips [Phillips, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-385-35376-2
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

Or that joke of a pistol

you chose at the pawnshop

and loaded, and unloaded,

and cleaned,

then tucked in your belt,

like when you were seven,

as you crossed

a hayfield by the road,

where a sudden breeze lifted

the endless gray finches

and lit the bright

backs of the leaves—

your face the stunned face

of a prisoner then,

at the gateway

through which he’s released.

Vesper Sparrow

for Deborah Digges

All I can do

to keep from believing

where, in truth, your last steps led,

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