Strike Anywhere by Dean Young
Author:Dean Young [Young, Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry
Publisher: Center for Literary Pub., University Press of Colorado
Published: 1995-10-14T18:30:00+00:00
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confused about what can bring us light, about what,
exactly, electricity is. We thought it was a day like
any other with a dental appointment at 2 and our dreams
rusting away like old baby carriages. It was simple,
just drive to the store for something new,
for something more. So what there was the usual
haggle over parking and someone in the noodle aisle
had to discipline his child and what was once
revolutionary song was converted to ether
in pipes over our heads? How secure the milk
in its firm prediction of spoilage and that too
somehow comforts us, convinces us to quit
for a moment our long treatise on death. We
could drink it after all, all of it, stand
right there with it gurgling out the sides
of our mouth but of course that sort of thing
isn't done. Why? Well, it was agreed upon
while you were out of the room like the rules
of poker, a game you'll never win or lose
much at. And our desires? Well, they went
running off ahead of us as usual towards
the lake with ducks, a-wag, tennis ball in mouth
and we felt some odd sense of well-being, coiling
the leash up in our hand, loping after. It turns out
so much in the world actually works and no one
right now wants to remind us of all those
messes we've left for someone else to mop up.
There's healing all around, scabs are forming
and flaking away and even the fat, legless lady
with her pekinese seems another shape of love
just beyond our comprehension. It turns out,
all that time, vast conspiracies of forgiveness
were mustering in the sky and we had only to look up
to receive. Starlight. The resemblances of clouds.
Of course these frightening moments persist,
we really are going to pieces but surely
we can't go on dragging all this stuff around with us,
no matter what it means, which may, even this,
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