Showing posts with label No Tent for It. Show all posts
Showing posts with label No Tent for It. Show all posts

Friday, January 23, 2015

1.23.15

No Tent for It

I am so jealous of the callous world you now share
yourself with, as you shared it with me.

I was not so callous.

Perhaps had I been, or could ever be,
you might would still be my country gallant?
Palms my hands filled with the feathers let by
the falcon you encountered the day
I stayed in the car, sick with disease.

Why am I so diseased?

Some who love me much have told me
it is my beauty. Disables some men, and me,
not you, apparently. Or maybe I did disable you,
somehow twisting your limbs round the wrong
way, like you became in my charge the contortionist
in a picaresque circus. I was ribald, maybe, failed
miserably in my role as ringmaster.