Silent Brightness, 2006
There’s a silence in my heart now.
Yet the sun insists on shining outside, relentlessly.
Yesterday she told me that they had glue,
I suggested that they both had glue.
This lit her eyes momentarily.
The man across the world, couldn’t
download my joy. He was blocked.
I won’t go there to be kissed.
It’s just too far. I kiss myself daily.
For this, I am grateful. Grateful
everyday, for these moments.
There’s a threat given. But, I’m distracted
by the smell of the large, dark pink blossoms.
They entrance me. They enter my body constantly
as I work here. There’s music in my head.
It’s loud. Sometimes it wakes me as I fall asleep at night.
Ragtime. The city is still under water.
They won’t bail it out. No more.
It was the chocolate city and now
Disney moves in to rebuild. When will
they tell us that the white man bought the land?
It was an inside deal. George got a plush doll.
The sun is forever. When I saw it shine again
in late winter, I realized that the light had been out.
I lay in bed, healing a broken bone, a straightened bone.
And the brightness kept me awake. I woke like
never before. Was it just trapped in the twisted flesh?
Was that it? Just undo the flesh and your
new life will tumble out in-front of you.
There, on the wooden porch floor. My new room,
she sits in it everyday. She likes the brightness.
It pleases her. She curls up, like that
cruner said that’s what I wanted to do.
Just curl up with me too. And let’s celebrate.
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