Dear Body

      Dear body, a colossal passion
      Has galloped through you and left you fenceless;
      Fenceless and borderless--through your own treason
      That tore the stakes from the sky and, pitiless,
5     Watched it float off with the horizon.
      There are no angles or inches to you
      At all now.  Now you are drowning;  now gone.
      Of all that was you, not a single blue
      Vein remains.  Dear body, you are bodiless;
10    You do not shudder or squirm anymore.
      What bloods composed you evaporate vaporless;
      Whatever pains nailed you to here are no more.
      She has left you with nothing, not even a note
      To blow through your hollows, as once
15    You shouldered on each morning your blue coat.

 

From the collection "Supposing Roses"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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