What It Means to Fall (sample)

8/11/2019 What It Means to Fall (sample)

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I will marry the morning at our wedding she will wear whitesilken cloud angelngers veiling her tresses of gold.

I will not shout at hereven when we quarrel (which happensmore than youd guess) even whenshe takes forever at her vanity before we go out dancing.

And when it is very late I willsit with her in the relight,and she will quietly close her eyesas I trace myngertips along her brow and gently braid birdsinto her hair.


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Driving on the expressway in the crumpledmorning light, that

hazy deep blue heavy

light between dawn and night when you can barelymake out the twisted, cracked bonesof deer who didnt make it

to the other side

and cold clouds cometo the low places

among the twiggy dried stumps of last years crops, and

creep slowly out across the road covering the twisted

cracked concrete corsesthose silkspun, stretched sinews ofbrokenness.


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I am sorry about the pomegranatesand the salted butter and the eggnogand I am sorry for not noticing yourcareful glances and your knowingly

silent stares and I am sorry for not perceiving quietly your whimpers as you fell asleep and for not seeing withmy own eyes the way a warm wreathof light leafs over the auburn mo-ments in your hair. I am sorry for nothearing you. I am sorry for not telling you with the sound of my own voicehow dear you are to me under anysky, more than any red rose or bluebird or silver sof ly snow, my darling you are so much more than printedtext or evenastonishinglyhand- writing, and so I wish I knew howto be a way to tell you mostly in mymind what means only that you de-serve more than poems.


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Love is a terrible thingfor just a moment, arent we falling orailing or maybe failing, knowing sooner or later we will or wontunderstand what it means toreally be alive not alone, butalove which is exactly light


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Suddentendernessis nota contrabut it is de nitely a dictionand probably addiction


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Muttering and the light comes in white light casting undulations in andout and in and out of focused projectionsof clouds that creak or thatmoan or buzz and dget and squirmAnd in the silent prayera child always cries.

T is morning even angels would wonder whattime their alarms were set, andutteringtheir eyelids, rocking their chairscurling their toes, anything to keepfrom falling asleep, anything for an amenAnd in the always silent prayera child cries.

Lord hear our prayer, and he hears italright, thats why he made surethe Catholics and the Anglicans knew the use of breadcrumbs as stiltsto hold open the eyelidsAnd in the silent prayeran always child cries.


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What if all these distractions weresacraments, Jesus said I will give you rest,I think that entitles me to let my eyesdroop for a moment while some weird wordsare muttered in midmorning hazeand in the silent always prayera child cries.


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Here is a deep red remembranceof buoyancy, of rushing water,of membranes bursting outward,splayed back,ung wide likecurtain drapes on a cool morning in autumn when colors are everywhere yes, everywhere when colors arecolors when everywhere itowsoutward from the center of a woman,spills out in slow motion, gliding like watching a cup of wine fallT en we burst forthwe oat, In Time and Space, O Soul that is what it is like when youare born, when the universe is shouting let space expand, let the stars coollet them become blue, deep red and yellow,let people explode from their centerslet them splay back, and brighteff ulgent crowns of petals fall opensuddenly bursting with colors everywhere


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Rain who is manyngers pointed down,rain who cannot be counted by the stars,rain who has a thousand names and who is yet nameless,rain who falls faster than snow especially in summer,rain who is a thousand renditions of yes,rain who pricks the earth and crocuses rise out,rain who is justly fog, only bigger,rain who falls lightly on your shoulders, rain who falls hard on my face, and

rain who does everything on purpose, especially the way it dapples my spectacles,and the way it coats your hair, so that even when the sun is not shining, there is light.

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