Saturday, March 30, 2019

YOU ALONE IN THE HOUSE OF TRUTHS






2 new pieces at Subtle Tea,

but I think the 2nd one is chopped off

on the web site












Should read like:







ash wilderness 





this little girl with wings

or this middle-aged man with

the bones of his wife locked in the

trunk of a shiny new car



these myths that are actually truths



the way pollock died so desperately



the way lee fell to the floor



screamed



and what is history but a

list of names written

backwards in the book of wasted days?



what are words but a

more hopeless form of violence?



listen



i was never this frightened before

my children were born



was never filled with so much useless anger



and i keep coming back to this

eleven year-old girl who

disappears from her home

thirty miles east of here



i keep coming back to her killer



how he never told where her body was



how he laughed on

the day he was executed



not like anything was funny

but like he'd won



like it had cost him 
nothing at all




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