Improvisation Without Accompaniment by Matt Morton

Author:Matt Morton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Published: 2020-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Vardaman

My brother is Darl. He went to Jackson on the train.

I saw my brother crying on the box

where my mother is. A big moon

sawed in half above him crying for

what my mother took with her when

she left the day. Where did she go

I asked my brother. It is always

night where she is he said.

My brother’s head is full of flames.

I can’t see them. I can see two blue

circles like holes of sky punched through

a fence and why is there no smoke.

One day I found something she wrote.

I showed my brother and he took it

and he said you can keep a secret good

so I knew it was something

that could be mine and his but not for my father

and not for my mother. My brother’s brain

is wrong but my brother is right. It was night

when he went on the train. The sun is on fire

too and it runs on tracks too. First

it is night and then it goes up up and over

and then it goes down and then

it is night again. Time

must run on tracks too because it goes

in a big circle and that is why clocks.

A clock is a long time

and it is also a short time. I have

to do all the not-telling myself now.

Crying on the box of my mother

under a moonhalf. Bright blue holes

of shining. One day I’ll go in a box

too with night in it like my mother

and my mother will be there

and we will get on a red train

and ride through the night trees and black

leaves with moon on them

to where my brother is

waiting in the cool air

with no more fire inside his head.

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