Honest Engine by Kyle Dargan

Author:Kyle Dargan [Dargan, Kyle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780820347288
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2015-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

DIRGE IN APRIL

Spend all your time writing love songs,

but you don’t love me.

~LIANNE LA HAVAS

As much as green is wilted white

the color of spring. And when

the public-radio street reporter describes

this morning sky’s hue as gun metal,

I sense, immediately, that he has never

caressed a denuded gun—never judged

its skin against his own hide. This

mauve sky’s threat is too soft a song

to coax a bullet from a barrel-throat.

Overcast atmosphere. I am fretting

spring’s first rain, its larceny—the cherry

blossoms snatched by a cool cascade,

leaving any petals not swept down gutters

to spoil and crisp on my sidewalk.

Renewal’s season always starts with this

extinguishing—before any tulip begins

stripping down to its stamen,

before hosta stems stab free

from the earth. First, this loss

of blossoms—a small heartbreak

followed by bit-lip humming

that somehow heals.

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