Man in the Street

Posted July 31st, 2009

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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