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(anchors)
i.
in a city of
brine and tarnished
anchors
sits a boy’s features, scorn-muddled.
and stapled to untouched slabs of
cobalt, I watch from the riverbank
as he grows
smaller
and
smaller
like dragonfly wings
crossways a murky sky.
Stonewater Creek chains
me as he
watches,
not looking, but
watching,
seeing, taking
in—
(what does Goodbye mean?) I implore,
my throat a thorn-wedged
mess.
but he doesn’t reply
And
my world leaves me behind on teal
water
And
I bury my love for him
in parched chunks
of dead
earth.
all plants
departed,
all soil
a cracked clutter,
like the crevices
that
divide us.
ii.
watching him fold and craft
my consciousness like a rumpled fabric
comforter, I drift
away at moonpeak,
with him hidden in myself:
and the moon descends into
us-crevices, and I wonder
if he rose early
or welded his eyes.
(sometimes it’s the observers
that have the most fun)
he voices
to me
as he wakes,
and
the best year
of my life was when he
was gone.
a million years ago
when they
arched their eyes
skyward, they saw not blazing starspecks
but pinpricks
in a black paper—
what light was on the other side?
iii.
I live in two fringes—
anchors
and loose ends
a cup of strings
and a cup of segments
the real question is
which side holds the
pricks
and which side holds the
(stars?)
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