Refuse/d words built into infinite forms of bodies. This collection is unedited; done in one sitting; sometimes daily, frequently infrequent.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

I haven’t the stories To Fill the family



My men are scattered,
Their pictures locked, burned,
And flooded: lost.

My women are few
And community-less
lessened by loneliness
and loss.

Legacies slow
to a simple wheel squeak
then silence.  And in the silence,
footsteps, walking away from fire.

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