Holding Company by Major Jackson

Author:Major Jackson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2019-07-07T16:00:00+00:00

Early Spring

Now she is going with the rain, like a blinking

stoplight, falling methodically. Nothing

in the world is knowing. Her ears burst,

a slow suicide of clouds coerced

to reincarnate. I promised her long similes

and the wintry teeth of my smiles.

With her I wanted to park my prayers

beneath a billboard. My eyewear is

empty, as are my armpits. The milk in

the refrigerator has soured.

Roadblocks

Given said variance, rather my side of the orchard,

is it merely about the hookup where I’m legislating

other pods in daisies, an enormous yellow grove

between the gurney and the exhilaration of Formica

in her eyes? One touch of my hand, the gavel lands,

and she’s constellated. I wandered through a feverish

belief in teeth biting grass, in half-awake moans.

Across the city of night, breasts, waists, throats pure

as punctuated skies. I took Mr. Blue to cafés, spoke grief

to all the distingué faces, also too, in the fly business.

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