A HUNDRED POEMS - LXXXIV
(THIRTEEN STEPS)
My wooden staircase creaks
[a heart broken by feet]
and weeks the measure -- my neck
What month long that noose stretched!
A hooded man in black
shared a joke -- the pun a trapdoor
I fell --
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for the line
a broken neck upon
a heart string
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:: 07-11-2014 ::
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