Sunday, April 26, 2015

(source: “Running Like a Saint in Exile”, 2002.)

Could the gods of old folklore
better my summer, scheming
white water clouds 
to my front door? 
I haven’t the shadow to pray
bitter through evening, waiting 
on heaven’s storm 
to bow me down. 
Through bombs of light and 
cracked shells, I’m running
reborn in cracks
of swept thunder —

a saint, not rival,
for the gutter.

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