Sunday, November 8, 2009

Ten Pounds

watching seeds grow in salted sand,
hands reaching up, pulling at our shoe strings,
tying knots to keep us close,
gravity is a lust of one's inner being,
those that stay are
those that are condemned and those
that evoke the worldliness of faith.
Faith, what a clumsy word.
heard it too many times
running out that old steel storm door,
hands clasp, knees throbbing,
Sunday morning crucible, and I speak on
what I do not know.
So what if I don't want to be?
What if he didn't want to be when he was all alone?
I saw him in my dream
and felt the world hum.


Oh these roots. these roots keep me close to home,
humble and away from the road.

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