What rewards the body the body
a soldier / the body a name / a holiness
before sleep. Say you understood / say
nettles say feathers / say holy and mean
ancient / say homeward and mean gone
each shore-light falters / say my apologies
to your salt / oh lord / do not take yourself
to trial there are days / there are signs
in the dirt / whatever was meant
by the road is known only by the road
the mountain chase / the desert chase
the lake all rimmed in millweed
what child, what comes and should
I ask for the match / should I say please
days flame up like oil / please / I may beg
say that word / in my ear say it / so close say it
so I’ll know whatever is given is received.
Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 21, Issue 4.
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