Thursday, December 2, 2021

Noli Me Tangere

Incompletion makes someone

want to fill your blanks in.

— Kathleen Rooney

    inhabiting Weldon Kees


years turn ulcer

to scar, scar to fold

lost in wrinkles


I climb cold cliffs

mouth open

to wind hail snow

swallow any kind

of weather


I follow the road

enter the woods

let wild beasts come

fail at speaking

a feral tongue


I cross water

barreling

rock after rock

gravity’s darling


take me, fill me

I’m here to be gone


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