Her voice is sweeter than its path.
With so many berry leaves latticed
into the chain-link fence,
it sounds like millions of feathers
tinkling.
Her eyes are in Arizona,
in impacted zones of clay knuckles
punching their way outwards
into the redwood bone of the earth.
Her smell is wet limestone; baked apples; hungry petunias.
And the sound they make is a train,
a reveille
moving away.
Heather tells me about a recent trip to Los Angeles;
about forms of travel
that don't move on tracks,
where there is no discernable distance.
I tell her I have been here all along;
I know where you have been
and how you sound there.
I know the heathers of the world
by the berry in your mouth.
Mar 9, 2012
Mar 9, 2012 at 5:48 PM UTC
Her voice is sweeter than its path.
With so many berry leaves latticed
into the chain-link fence,
it sounds like millions of feathers
tinkling.
Her eyes are in Arizona,
in impacted zones of clay knuckles
punching their way outwards
into the redwood bone of the earth.
Her smell is wet limestone; baked apples; hungry petunias.
And the sound they make is a train,
a reveille
moving away.
Heather tells me about a recent trip to Los Angeles;
about forms of travel
that don't move on tracks,
where there is no discernable distance.
I tell her I have been here all along;
I know where you have been
and how you sound there.
I know the heathers of the world
by the berry in your mouth.
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