From 61baf210a9d0d4fffcd82751ba3419dd2feb349d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 16:29:46 -0700 Subject: Revise a few poems in Elegies Also add a .gitignore. How is this so late? --- wip/i-am.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 wip/i-am.txt (limited to 'wip/i-am.txt') diff --git a/wip/i-am.txt b/wip/i-am.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f4727a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/wip/i-am.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +I am a great pillar of white smoke. +I am Lot's nameless wife turned to salt. + +I am the wound on Christ's back as he moans +with the pounding of a hammer on his wrist. + +I am the nail that holds his house together, +the long nail in his right wrist that points + +toward heaven. I am that nail and I am +the builder of the house, a strong house + +with a sound foundation. I am not the only +one who lives here. I am the god of + +a race of dust mites who build monuments +in my honor every day in the small dark + +corners of my house. I destroy each one +before I sleep each night. Every morning + +there are still more. I am unaware where +all of them are. There are too many. + +I am a god without a name in an empty house. +I am an open wound festering in the white sun. -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81