Saturday, October 24, 2015

296.365 - emptiness

I sit before one of those poems
in which a black dies and is
Orion climbing into the night

the poet is Yusef Komunyakaa
but it could be Donny Jackson
the imagery is intense
the words drumbeats
and the language mixes whiskey and honey
but when it finishes
emotions have been wrung
til no more moisture can be found
and they must hang
languish in air
drying past dry

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