A FUTURE AWAY


A smile formed on the clock in poverty,
she put a penny in the slit through my heart,
dog voices and rolling leaves in passing.

Some trinkets shook loose from the weather,
I found one when the steam disappeared,
she was sleeping by the sadness over a future away.

Tents up around the canyon filled with skeletons
watching fires, watching wars between mountains
that were the bones of her pelvis.



From Trouble In Close Sequence Copyright © 2002 by M.W. Albrecht
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