Rehearsal
Bodies practice in the park.I watch. You would. Cued,flocked, avid, drastic, dressed in black,they throng over desiccated turf,behold shrubs like lovers, jogbackwards in a pantomime of shockrewound, hunch and bob with T-Rexwrists, then tumble back to earth.They are going to be expertsin it. Ecstatic, desolate, their facesare a rapt line fleeting as the ghostleft behind by a cursor on a page deletedor unwritten. You know, I’ve heardthat some people are still trying allalone to make things that no one else has everthought about before. HowI couldn’t say. Around us,grackles sleek themselvesinto arrows that zing awayand back, chattering,singing it.
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- November 6, 2023
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- What Sparks Poetry
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