Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Brown Valentine

Like channeling sparks
toward their slippery targets
in the sun is poetry
not at all like raising dust storms
to bury cities but to show
that nothing known won’t be
amended in some similar way
won’t be embarrassed by the future
recorder or decoder
wearing a fine brown shirt
blown open miles away
from which every drop of sweat
has been extracted
so all that’s left is stain.

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