Saturday, April 19, 2008

the food the table the window

we first know our parents
through the deaths they have
suffered- the terms at which
the accountable heart becomes
softly human, and the
man, the woman become
more than stockholm syndrome
and adore- becomes a
holy word, and the child's
feet fill with clay and
carry the body full
of ghosts across a field
of corn stalks turned
back to earth.

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