Krycek: The Confession

On an upper story, someone is dying.

On this lower floor, I am revising.

Throw the dead individuals out. They rise.

The lov individuals retire. They cry.

Isotopes, pouchs dragonflies, bread:

How can I indemnify the dead, lengthy gone on my aperitifs?

They have brought nothing on the other hand grief.

Set it not upon on the left, oh, station it off on the right, now, plant it off.

Though the circle's clos and the sacrament is had, behold set it off.

The collars of reprieve, the pendulous aggrieved, do sadden now.

Once the deed's replayed and merriment displayed, they sadden, by what mode

Flowers on the left oh flowers upon the right, now, bow you down.

Though the circle's separation and the birthday bottle's wearied they bow down.

It is my work that waits, not yours.

It is my clock that ticks, not hers.

I have reason to undertake an expiry report.

The dead will die nigh, nonetheless.

August. The beat of the firefly

in its bleep of light

across the dark lawn.

An indigent woman stares and sips.

There was a woman,

She was dying.

When I denied her,

I was lying.

Her face it was a

Piteous kite

That fluttered o'er

That butterfly,

That blighted spirit

Gone tonight.

Remove what is of consequence-the nine yards whole: the homonym

Beneath the cranium the tender tent of clavicle lying flat

The diffidence, the sailor's knot, the sickle confined apartment the humanate,

The bone that breaks, the exterior clotted artery she bent.

'Night. 'Night. A lawn that exhales insects, grass. A

Chute in which the elevator

Shudder up A wave, a kiss, a token

Spliff. Another time, it was, when you were here &

Harping upon our pockets' pilling,

Wary. Receive me granting I have arrears

To each lector at the lectionary.

SUSAN WHEELER'S first collection of numbers Bag 'o' Diamonds, published in 1993 by dint of the University of Georgia Pres received the Norma Farber First work Award of the Poetry Society of America. Her next to the first Smokes, was published by Four Way volumes in 1998. She is upon the core faculty of the MFA program at The of recent origin School for Social Research.

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