Wednesday, September 22, 2010

2 poems

In the Waiting Room


Time has borrowed me
spilled me,
and healed me;

No muddy voices

reach me
unembedded in its river.

If I survive,
I survive,
close to,
and unraveled by

its popular chords, mute to memory.

And I wonder--
how alone

how must i bleed

how must I face disorder

of blue breath rising
from this stone of grief?


*


Once, while perched on a little ledge,
the lonesome noise of faith
came calling my name.

and I recognized it in
its cloak of silence--

I recognized the stillness
immersed in me, with
my body's boundaries
the lines played and
wondered at, and also
the silk beginning
of a tremor?

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