Friday, September 16, 2022

Undo it by Carl Phillips

Undo it

 
‘I can almost see again: we’ll drown anyway’
 
Deep from within the changing colors of a life
that itself keeps changing, I know the leaves prove
nothing – though it
does seem otherwise – about
how helplessness is not a luxury, not a hurt by
now worth all the struggling to take back, but
instead what we each, inevitably, stumble
sometimes into,
 
and sometimes through … As for
that grove-within-a-grove that desire has, so long,
looked like – falling, proof of nothing, carrion-birds
clouding the slumped boughs of the mountain ash –
 
I can almost see again: we’ll drown anyway – why not
in color? You’re no more to me a mystery, than I to you.
 


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