Crying

Lewis
It's a shame that the seam you're mining here is one
of such clear and immediate personal grief, but it is
leading to some quite remarkable and beautiful work.
michael
— Lewis LaCook <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> for Renee
>
> I pick fragments of my face out of us. I slip edge
> against edge, sole judge of this beauty. I am all
> gorgeous scars, for you to trace your fingers
> through.
>
> As if in cupping rainwater from shattered clouds you
> find your hands, so aching, while Jesus laughs and
> pulls another spit of sun through my nipples. It's
> slick here against the cross, two thieves flanking
> her, two thieves who shatter and contract when I
> touch
> what used to be you there. Icarus would want a
> neater
> sentence, but tongues shower the desert in
> gelatinous
> light, with granules of dust I steady this place in
> me
> that was once yours, knowing too that hoping for a
> stop to the movement is no hope at all, just space
> between both of us and the promises, the goddamned
> promises in the hall. Since you left me I walk at
> night to gape at that worn-out moon.
>
> What can you do when all the light in the room is
> tired of you, and Jah laughs like a drunk freshman,
> knocking down each and every wall you put up for
> protection? Just beyond you see the brightness
> promised by the end of the hall; you reach for it,
> but
> two thieves swoop down from nowhere, the sky maybe,
> slowly bloodied, and freeze your face like that,
> just
> when a fresh tide of crying breaks.
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> NEW!!!–Dirty Milk–reactive poem for microphone
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