When the Only Light Is Fire by Saeed Jones

Author:Saeed Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: poetry, lgbt, gay poetry, social science, social sciences, sibling rivalry press, southern poetry
Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press

Pavement becomes skin tight

drum,

they take my teeth

for piano keys.

My god,

this song: one man

chain gang, playing this road.

Every stick,

every pebble: this road

this song.

Hear me, Jasper.

Hear me for miles.

Chain gang, work song, back road,

my body

broken breaking going gone.

Hear me

for miles

Jasper

I’m gone.

COYOTE CRY

Listen to my darkness,

my half-eclipsed notes. Mistake them

for the sound of a lonely woman

waling as she roams the hills. She needs you

like I need you.

Ignore the warnings; hurry to me. Why

aren’t you here yet? Can’t you hear

her trouble?

Cold air dries her muddy footprints

to a path of hard open mouths.

If she re-traces her steps,

the footprints will eat her. Oh, farmer.

Ragged pines snatch her cries

and keep them.

That’s why I cry. Hurry,

little one. Climb the broken stone stairs

into the hills. Climb them

into the night’s throat.

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