Sluices

The roads are sluices for the East wind
draining uphill off the ocean.
We are backs to the flood,
having faced it minutes ago,
but it's still a frigid swim.
He doesn't seem to notice, but I suspect
he's doing that animal thing
about forging on not knowing
there's another way to be.

November 7 2017

Fake Quotes 11/7/17

"I have always felt that poems are truly finished only when you die."
-- Leonie Tesman

"Life is a wild animal. You can't leash it or contain it, and you certainly can't tame it."
-- Retief Johnson

November 7 2017