Thursday, December 19, 2019

Decembers in Connecticut

My same self
     On those 3 o'clock floors
                                 Recalled:
The wheeze of the vents,
     The secret romp of paws ...

The large house with Other
               In other room
-- We may find ourselves
                                 Together
     As shadows in the dim
                        Blue glow,
               Protrudingly
     Not of the one.

Some nights,
     With all that dark
                          To scale
     There seemed no place
                To hide
But I tried to anyway
     Behind the cellar door

That was closer to the seed
     That grew in the waste
                  And the death
To a precise
      And rarefied
                  Frequency
Indistinguishable
      From the all.