Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Distant thunder



Two pines against lit background
midsummer light and the grass
my dog dreams of bone
He is also a horse

Worn out shirt or "the dregs"
as I once referred to as
Unable to be donned
retired later to cedar floors

Silverfish devours all Latin
and Greek and [hole]
a cemetery wall now
uneven death in your tongue

So distant a night, a winter
a dull thump of the clouds
my dog, my shirt, your Latin
wallow in wanting still, here

2 comments:

Rafael Mantovani said...

this one is very nice. I love poems about sleeping and dreaming animals.

Anonymous said...

beeetiful

-mim