Slender Human Weight by Sue Chenette

Author:Sue Chenette
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry
ISBN: 9781550715149
Publisher: Guernica Editions Inc
Published: 2009-07-09T00:00:00+00:00

One swoops, wings

wide above ponds and skaters, tree-lined roads,

far fields, almost escaping –

in the painted moment,

gravity slumps the tired hounds,

slopes the snow-drenched earth back to itself.

Hush

Complicit in the abandon of late day sleep,

the cat pressed behind my knees,

and I woke at dusk, the windowed sky

thick with the pink diffusion of city light.

Tree limbs, bulky and ridged with snow,

or scribbled fine above rooftops, waited

for a clock to tick again.

When I was a girl,

this hush came, sometimes, late on a winter Saturday.

My brother and I sat on a radiator and watched cars,

the orange Phillips 66 sign across the highway,

that border

between now and all that had yet to happen,

waiting for us beyond the motionless branches.

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