Trespass by Thomas Dooley

Author:Thomas Dooley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

VIII

Chestnuts harden in spiky

green husks, my brothers and I

would walk the driveway

in our socks, braved it

under the chestnut tree

and you give me

a husk to hold

suffer its unkindness.

IX

It’s been five weeks

since I left you and I leave

the family brunch, pass

the hidden plastic eggs.

Today the tomb

is not empty, the stone

still wedged in. I can’t go on

distracting myself

from the smell

of burial spices

the disturbed earth, you

have not come back.

X

Fridays are the hardest.

Your body moves through

happy hours without

me, I can’t even

chart you,

I want

to see the lines

you make

on the map of the city,

if they cross the lines

I make, do we

create a pattern

unknowingly,

does my finger

run down the glass

at the table you just left

at the café on Dekalb? We are

no longer destinations,

single blinking dots.

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