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Monday, August 3, 2009

Sound Can Find No Home

Still, body stripped & blanket draped, you lie
where your final cries rise to mix with sounds
in undulant trees & descend disguised
as August noise. The waning day dies loud
with voice as evening winds laced with smells
of charcoal fires convey laughter from crowds
gathered about a store-front clown, and swells
from a calliope mount toward clouds
drifting in the silent advent of dark.
Sonant waves wash across your heaveless breasts,
but sound can find no home within the stark
confines of your lifeless form. Pulsing crests
pass unheeded, & grief’s urgent sobs die
at your ears. Life’s flood ebbs, returns, flows by.

Originally published in Red Jacket, 1993.
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6 comments:

  1. Exactly how it has been, is now and forever shall be. Excellent.

    Have a terrific day. :)

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  2. Powerful and sad. The language fits so very well the scene.

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  3. The senses of August flowing by, marking the passage of summer. Nice one, GP.

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  4. Beautifull verses you wrote
    Mostly a sad poem, but with insinuations of happier times,
    a great combinatin between sad and not that sad.
    You seem to do not even know what or who you are. And you do not seem to desperate to find it out either.
    I judy hope you manage to suffer less.

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