Monster: Poems by Morgan Robin

Author:Morgan, Robin [Morgan, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781497678262
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-11-11T05:00:00+00:00

Elegy

After all, the dog was only stunned:

a handsome bitch gulping for air

in the road where a car had left her lying

unmangled, nipples hard with fear.

Her eyes were open, and they knew.

We dream the day’s impossible brightness

but wake at night to learn fear-sweat,

an eyeless inquisitor, wheels groaning,

fur, chains, claws, a fog-slick street,

someone lost just beyond awaking.

He will not turn, nor will we wake,

except to lie beneath his wheels,

believing finally that he has passed,

and feel the red in our slackened smiles—

river that widens to no sea.

Insisting death made life absurd,

one man laughed at his torturers

and sped, of course, to his obvious end

in a car loaded with picnic hampers

one invincible summer day in France.

She rose on slim forelegs and fell

back with the rest of her polished body,

nails digging at the pavement to rise

again, trot normally away.

Then the blood blossomed from her mouth.

We read the papers, espouse causes.

Some pray. Some arch in sheeted grace,

willing each membrane to the work

only entropy will enhance.

Some sit very, very still.

The resurrection of the night

each day should teach us how, at least,

eyes watch us clawing, stunned,

for the figure hidden in the mist

breathed by our own mouth’s desire.

Sleepwalking dark familiar streets,

we dream the day’s impossible brightness

but wake, in time, her sight, his laughter

in effigies anointed to embrace

their only sacrament, our suffering.

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