24 July 2008

More on mornings, breaking

Recycled some images from "Second floor, at the bar" for this one. Riffed? Self-plagiarized? Irrelevant, I guess.

A.M.

the morning broke hopeful
on coarse tonsils

you were thinking
about empty houses and wings

and beating, beating,
how the gaze swivels.

the morning broke pearly
grazing you

uncouth pedestrians
and their incurious intrusions.

the morning broke people
it snapped them

it was relentless
on your spine

core muscles made from paperbacks
and were we running then, even?

the morning broke itself
its yolk bowing

but nothing was left
and no one knew what

morning breaking
really meant.

But we expected
a thing or two

from packed houses
with parked wings

and it was early again
when we first noticed
how the morning breaks.

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