In the gabled room of your uncle’s house,
I left you sleeping, left you
before your alarm could sound, before
the white gravy could thicken in the pot
and went side-stepping through the linens
hanging like a history of honeysuckle.
Beyond the screen-porch, beyond
the indifference of dirt, I returned
to the rows of white boxes—a mini mill
town of clapboard houses thrumming.
I made a fist and shoved it in my mouth
to shape a scream. I made a fist
and shoved it in my stomach to shape.
The night before, you laid me down
in the wheated ryegrass, in the heavy heat
of Carolina. I think you wanted to show me
something undeniable, that slow expansion,
the humble roar of instancy.
And between the boxes,
each for different reasons, we added
to the whipping of a thousand wings.
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