Monday, September 23, 2019

Meanwhile by Richard Siken


Meanwhile
 
Driving, dogs barking, how you get used to it, how you make
                                the new streets yours.
Trees outside the window and a big band sound that makes you feel like
          everything's okay,
      a feeling that lasts for one song maybe,
                          the parentheses all clicking shut behind you.
            The way we move through time and space, or only time.
The way it's night for many miles, and then suddenly
                                       it's not, it's breakfast
    and you're standing in the shower for over an hour,
                         holding the bar of soap up to the light.
I will keep watch. I will water the yard.
        Knot the tie and go to work. Unknot the tie and go to sleep.
                             I sleep. I dream. I make up things
    that I would never say. I say them very quietly.
                            The trees in the wind, the streetlights on,
        the click and flash of cigarettes
being smoked on the lawn, and just a little kiss before we say goodnight.
     It spins like a wheel inside you: green yellow, green blue,
                                                                     green beautiful green.
It's simple: it isn't over, it's just begun. It's green. It's still green.
 

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