PARIS, KENTUCKY
Humidity here
spent breath
ten thousand cankered
acres of corn
exhaling
sibilant hiss
worried down-
wind over
slate-flat plains
late
summer
clouds
the last
asters in rain
Rust the cast-
iron leaves
on the sink
trap traces
a thin silted
bruise
over the onion-
clogged sink breathe
in hold notice
the gap
before the body
lets go—
a fracture
factions
a silence
bells
swell behind
Which ocean
breaks
over-
head we can’t say
let alone
who
aims to speak
across this muggy
distance
to whom
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