For A.K.
I still have your tiger
I’m using your name
you damned firecracker
you fool
give me your doomed, your damned
your born to die
I love regardless
headlong
patiently
what we have lost
we cannot know except in the having
a circuit shorted
milk spilt on a
watercolour. this smear
was a garden
this one the house
(2023)
If we were not so frightened
If we didn’t need so
If every home was a homecoming
And none died gnawing bones beneath the walls
Would we still set these lamps
Still ward the world away?
Yes, Brother
For the woods are deep and pathless
Yes, light them
As we prepare to receive
Yes,
For the night you lose the path
For the night I set the lamps
For you
(November 2022)
we were not afraid
we had done it before
collected the bones
renamed them
we were not afraid and we worked to be not afraid
and we thought
this is the only way
this is how we have always done it
passing the bones
renaming them
but this time they were our own
(2022)
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