Sunday, August 14, 2016

Kerri Shying R # 49 Chappaquiddick

Chappaquiddick

Death is still the way
some people learn
their  words
their places

No one stops
to speak the names of sustenance
close by.

4 comments:

  1. Death and life. Quite a thought, Kerri, one that will follow me around today, I think. (For some strange reason, it reminded me of this old one.)


    It wasn’t always this way you
    didn’t always break the glass
    warm forgot to check the mirror
    before the ideas went in reverse
    these words I use you use too

    I watched the landscape die
    awful dust I blew off the dust
    the electric sound of willy-willy
    two dreams facing each other
    take a rock and a butterfly

    The photograph looks inside
    these words I use you will too
    conspicuous cold illuminated
    a car is driven by its headlights
    it was fifty years since I was a child.


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    1. A car is driven by its headlights, this I love. Thank you Rob. xx

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  2. Beatrice, it is, it is from the Chappaqqua peoples, and it is the small island near Hyannis.

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