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Lazarus Boxer Poem
Strand by strand
Piece by piece
Your calico house
Slowly. Then quickly. Unwinds, unravels.
Once your palace, your bastion,
surrounded by the trilling of birdsong
And the deep humming of the earth
It is empty now, and threadbare
We try flames and quiet vigil
Prayers, hopes, guttural desperate desires
Whispered to the weighty confidences of your pillows
That once held that beloved head of yours
Through the dark night
Nothing, no thing,
Can consecrate your carefully carved out dreams
Nor a well intentioned paw or a stray’s cast off hair
Can melt, pray, scratch, stitch, join them back together
Into what you once took joy in
It is lost. As you are.
The loom now lies cracked and creaking
Scrap in the wind
Under gums and smoke and billowing sky
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Lazarus Boxer Poem
Icons disintegrate and views
Long looked upon, now
draw their blinds tight
Against warm air's tattered breath
Whose crumbling words and sighs are stuffed between folded pages
Where shots ring out and
At the corner rounded
misadventures end
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Lazarus Boxer Poem
On sight. On smell.
My body betrays me
Every hidden switch flicked
Every pulse and button jammed
What is this bag of bones for, if not to run and run and run from you
Even if I want you gone
out of here tonight
Eyes lock, screws turn
The heart weakens and the mind
rolls over
to what the rising day holds
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Lazarus Boxer Poem
The wick of home, green
Against dark rich urgency
Smaller, sharper,
Each, every thread sings
Out into crystalline air
With lungs roaring, sucking, gasping
for this
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Lazarus Boxer Poem
Last Oblivion growls
and stalks upon edges
freshly cut
With steel and shining clarity
She comes calling with wanton,
bedroom eyes
And promises numb notes
Which bellow deep
in amongst the echoes
'for the best, for the best'
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