Salt and Ashes by Adrienne Drobnies

Author:Adrienne Drobnies
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Signature Editions
Published: 2019-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

XVI. Sur la montagne

With the imminent past

I walk up in cold

down in cold, with

sweat on my brow

remove coat, vest, scarf

make this nearly final effort

pass through

bedroom alcoves, piles of burnt

and unburnt trash

stench and fear.

I prepare an offering

if it is needed

try to keep my skull

from the stone.

I am surrounded now by

gold leaves shaking in the wind

the emptiness of the season.

A faraway ice-covered rock

pokes its face at me.

Not enough to quench the pink clarity

in this gravid morning of indulgences.

I blanch in the absent sun

the crystal-hung haze

filled with smoke.

My watch has stopped.

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