Half Promised Land by Thomas Lux

Author:Thomas Lux
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

of getting out of here. Some apples, bruised,

mute, are nailed back to their branches,

and the south wind—low, hot ash—cruises

through a crook in the apple tree’s trunk.

The dirt, not known for its tenderness, on its knees

somewhat, and one munificent ant carries a crumb

to the crumbless. Every pond on earth agrees:

they are tired of being dragged—all those hooks—

for drowned children. All this beneath

the ceaseless lineage of comets! Books

help a little: groan-soaked, one broken etc. thief,

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