Wednesday, March 2, 2011

THIS IS WORK FOR THE THERAPIST:

Unkinking the kinked; splitting
two into one; whiting out
mistakes made in pairs

while one sits quietly   bites
the lip white while
the other  spits

unused anger white
at the corners
of the mouth.

And while the lather cakes,
his bride makes work
of lives recoiling

like cut barbed wire...

    ...the man of the house
    on fire eats his wife and children
    without listening to her dying...

to make light
of darkness
in their 50 minute hour...