Saturday, November 17, 2012

Last rabid dog in England


you can only hear
how water rubs air
stones click together

trust a moonless wood
to take your sloughing  
ruin in its brook

crickets' constant ring
feeds between the ears
sanding smooth the nerve

breath of tar and loam
this evening sinking
below the earth's turn

1 comment:

  1. Second stanza: another greatest-ever in American literature.

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