FRANKENSTEIN

Re-membering:
every moment -
a salvific whole
a shattering event;

considering the text
of fracture lines;

the steady punctuation
of a stitch.

Behold the creature -
not what was
but is

a clamorous reach
beyond attainable.

HISTORY

History - all that piecemeal business -
making whole out of fragments - making
Eden through the way we hold a thing -

it never was like that.

Broken - always - edges sharp as words -
the wound of departures - so much -
unfinished. Nostalgia - an unconvincing balm.

DEPARTING INHERITANCE

Frost, breath, cloud
break - snow on the
mountain - purple
fingered knot
around a bag -
school boy ascending.

Stolid red brick
squatting - on a hill, on
a graveyard - beneath
the arch - that school
his old man hated -
his inheritance.

Mountain arch, river
bank - generations
grounded - growing
thoughts pressing
out - alchemical
confinement.

Awake - the sleepless
night - the river song -
departure - school days
packed in boxes -
night swimming
to the ocean.