Doors /Poems


 

Millstone Grit
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Rain in the wind …
the three children coming down the brass slide
I want to tell you they’re fine, the children,…
miss you, knowing the impossibility of ever communicating anything
it’s so irrevocable…
The wind is icy -snow-
and in a few days it’ll be Christmas
our last in Lima, sunbathing and swimming,…
block after cement block of niches, rectangular hives,
and the coffin-bearers staggering and sweating in black suits
the mason cementing it in, no room for your words:

  you were to me the blue dusk and the smell of summer,
music that seemed to come from nowhere
I turned, left, hurried through the dusty streets to the car and never went back
Cold hands clutch mine, I open the car-doors,…
full throttle in third up the grey hill in wintry dusk      David Tipton
 

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