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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