The Skin of Meaning. Keith Flynn
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dragon scarf folded out of Saigon’s
final chaos, slowly lose their luster, or complicated
memory, as the generations stand at attention
in the roll call of deplorable time.
The clusters of music, whose muscles cannot
outlast the marathon of styles, are layered
era upon era, sparkling melodies recycled
by attentive geologists digging through
the stacked boxes in the attic or the basement.
Let the wan night, even when wintered,
fight the gauze of nostalgia and give refuge
to every fire, the future freshened,
and hard run sharpened against
the only path found, signpost labeled
what is to come, what is to come, what is to come.
If it takes the lives of twelve bees to make
a teaspoon of honey, why is it so absurd to believe
that our bodies are composed entirely of light?
GREAT BLUE HERON
for Amanda
Unable to extricate
itself from the silver
flash of trout
the spirit of the river
the great blue heron
its head shaped
like a rock hammer
stalks the brooking edge
on spindly stilts
and braids his hunger
into the oncoming
and infinite curl
of brisk mountain water
before the twin flames
of wings spread
without warning
and lifts the whole
giant jumble of sticks
and feathers silently
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