Wrist & Hoof: Poem for another year in

Wrist & Hoof

-for Desiree Dellagiacomo 6/4/13

love is a type of drifting

there will always be a doubting

imagine this is how you grow older

how the world wonders

don’t you remember this is a place

built on disappearing no stable landing

what are you supposed to do

besides what you have to

think about how hot a fire

must be to burn on water

I know how to construct such

tinder-hearted we live before we die

simple bargains now a dusking

I think there’s fear

there’s a fear & eventual

writing against the content of our content

let’s talk about how the heart changes form

over time through people

let’s talk about its opening & closing

the way it can never be stopped but how we clutch

this is how we carry/ this is how we buck & spar

I have come to consider futility

the heart & its want/ desire & defense/

speak and break speech

a raining down of what we hold hard

against us, once you are strong

you can never not be/ the unbreakable

source of language is chary of cohesion

any animal loves attention

runs from danger/ can’t always see it coming

these are matters of form

poetry is a type of canoeing

in a small lake

love is a bare question

it scatters, the best trick is believing

the world wanted you, we row

out uncompassed cramming up the dead

mouths, this: no end of lettering 

Copyright: Megan Burns