Mud Slide in Vernal Weather

      You can see the earth shake, no doubt, 
      Its myriad images 
      In your broken glass. 
      You can feel it, no doubt, 
5     In your tenebrous nails. 
      Or in the nervous laughter that the sky 
      Shakes down. 
      Pointed voice, mixing blues and browns 
      In a vivid mash that riffles the eye, 
10    These solids, and these, 
      Remain impenetrable. 
       
      O how I regret not having killed 
      The mouse in my childhood. 
15     
      Enfold me, lucid muds, 
      I would go cloaked in earth the way a duck 
      Dons water.

 

From the collection "Constellations in December"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

More information available on gregglory.com.