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Unbuttoning the Sky


Reflected in a limpid pool, the ghost
of Romanticism chews tobacco. He has moved
and, wanting, now lives in North Carolina,

but this is a poem of a desert;
held captive, a sun dare not cease
to shine; as if all the rainfall
in the world is captive to
the honour of sustaining life.

The oldest woman in the world dies,
her heart ever so slightly broken by
the seeming extinction of eligible frogs.

Let’s call our ghost John
and as he prepares to leave for the fields
Elysian he spits a wad.

The matchless honour of sustaining life.

 



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