Man in the Street
He claps a hand
across the gaping hole –
or else the sight might
well inside to
melt the mind (if any
thinking spoke
were in the wheel,
or any real
fright-fragments broke
out of the gorge to
soak the breast, the meaning
might incite a stroke – best
press against it, close
the clawhole, stand
in stupor, petrified. The dream
be damned, the deeps defied.
The hand’s to keep
the scream inside.
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