Falling

      In the tympany of the shattering glass there
      is this: there is this photographic effect, It
      occurs when, dimmed and fugitive, I see my own raw
      face new as a pound of freshly ground beef in one
5     of the shaken raindrop particles faltering. (They
      falter because they have forgotten the balance of
      air.  They are senile as snowflakes.) It is this
      effect that makes me measure and measure the
      millimeters of my pupils' shufting. (They are black
10    as a circus seal's fur, and wet as sweat.) It is
      a little like what I think it would be like to find
      a mirror at the bottom of the lake in which I am
      drowning, The window bleeds its little glitters
      down.  They shine like pennies out of a shotgun....

 

From the collection "Youth Youth Youth"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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