The Only Worlds We Know by Michael Lee

Author:Michael Lee [Lee, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-943735-65-5
Publisher: Button Poetry
Published: 2019-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

IV

THE STUDY OF THE DEAD AND PUZZLES

The knife does not kill the body, it simply informs it

that death is possible: a sudden light flooding the room,

the one corner of the house we never knew

existed until all other rooms had darkened. Once

I saw myself in a storefront’s glass and felt lost

somewhere in the middle, a single word stuck

between two people. I wondered

if dying would be as simple as shattering

a window. I knelt beside the lake and drank

the water for I was in it. This is how the body

misinterprets thirst. I knew a man who drank himself

to death. It was not the alcohol that killed him,

it was his reflection which never left the glass,

not even as it fell and the whiskey carried him

across the floor. We found death to be a stain

we scrub from a shirt until the shirt is gone

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