Travelers Leaving for the City by Ed Skoog

Author:Ed Skoog
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2020-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Clayton’s Friend from Back Home Who Came to the City to See Widespread Panic One Halloween at the New Orleans Lakefront Arena, Disappeared, and Then She Walked By the Pizza Place

She said the show was still going on

when she left

in a wedding dress

echoing coliseum behind her becoming

a moon

 as it disappears and instead

a departing music arrives under her bare feet;

palms grow acres above

confetti in her hair

she said human

before I can

pack up my tent and go

how does

last night learn morning or it’s morning

time develops

as any interview will

and sometimes string music will turn and enfold

you in its uncomplicated

embrace

hear

do you want to hear me

I want to have  heard you the way I want the war

film festival to have ended

program folded and back pocket and reread

on the bus home

  the interviewer’s voice

carries through the apartment

I’m interviewing

the streets of the city that led her

without harm

barefoot and veiled

over nail and glass shard and needle

  the painter and I looked all night up and down river streets

 ungainly arms

tangled out of car window

a little car  teeters on beady wheels

carves the corner

an event develops

like we’re drawing

lipstick across the city’s flirting grimace

people gather at intersections

as though the city knows she’s gone

that was her who walked by

okay

did she believe we searched all night

the houses

their secrets

the past

writhed invisibly its visage

and where

a rider might come aboard one notices

the birds differ

feather in a more

vigorous order

as dunes refashion

the beach after a dream of searching

each house for a bride

bride one has

always been

paused at erotics of last

thought

I’m here to kill some part

of myself with either exposure or a shroud and it may take all afternoon

It will be

a daily observation

a glimpse that will

throw my reflection back

like fish I can no more start over

or start

new chain of interlocking construction

paper

than I can begin my life again

or bring back dead

somewhere

in the park’s the fountain that makes you  make the same lesson over again

   as the bus driver swings down

the lane in the snow

 and misquotes Blake

we throw off one set of snow chains and immediately put on another

augural twenty-six or so letters that thrush

our names from cities and corner town

bars weird compositions left

to rust and grow

long to become

their sons and daughters and grow

long beard in hardware aisles

among boxed nails  a screw

arranged by its bore

from the bridge

a kind of voice

wave that would become  the suit

you know is hanging upstairs

in all possible cedar closets

door open, window open

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