3 posts tagged “haunting”

Now the midwinter grind
is on me, New York
drills through my nerves,
as I walk
the chewed-up streets.

At forty-five,
what next, what next?
At every corner,
I meet my Father,
my age, still alive.

Father, forgive me
my injuries,
as I forgive
those I
have injured!

You never climbed
Mount Sion, yet left
dinosaur
death-steps on the crust,
where I must walk.

Robert Lowell

Mother, Why?

Mother, why you go so fast?

because my mother never moved

She had sores on her ass

Mother why you eat that slab of bacon

like a hungry wolf?

because I've been hungry all my days

Mother why is the wind howling?

It's the banshee come to pay his respects

in the hollow time before snow

Lucy Simpson, Seattle, 2/21/2009

God Composted

Remember when we heard God's roar

in the house we bought in Colorado

after the Jehovah's Witnesses moved out

and we moved in?

They left a stale crust of God in the cupboard

Now he sighs in the compost

turning green

upon yesterday's bread

Lucy Simpson, Seattle, 12/2008