La dispute

What will I find? Some sacred thing To help me handle the tragedy? Or did I once Did I have it and lose it? No one should ever have to walk through the fire alone No one should ever have to brave that...

There are bridges over rivers There are moments of collapse There are drivers with their feet on the glass You can kick but you can't get out There is history in the rooms of the house After dinner,...

Where a bookshelf goes or a throw rug How you shape any common space And the language you make out of looks and names All the motions of ordinary love All the weight it can hold when you say one name...

There were shadows in the bedroom Where the light got thrown by the lamp on the night stand On your mother's side, after midnight, still You can see it all, you can see it all And the closet in the...

I recall once on the church steps When I moved to kiss your chest How we paid such close attention To each sweet and stuttered breath I should've stopped to paint our picture Captured honest pure...

Stained-glass and the choir sing out That strong and ceaseless chorus here So sweet the voices, sweep like Leaves into the street, on Easter A celebration, carried on For God and hope and refuge To...

Like any morning of my Junior year I stumble in the classroom Late, but this day I see Faces, I feel An air like a funeral Like a wake As I sit down Teacher speaking Somewhat sombrely But still...

Yesterday alone I laid everything out on the carpet Books, kitchen things, objects with specific purpose or none Arranged them sideways in a grid on the floor there unmoored Out of context and then...

So now, tell me how your story goes Have you ever suffered? If so, did you get better or have you Never quite recovered from it? Did you find your lover laying In your bedroom with another and then...

Morning after snowstorm, stand in the silence Almost feel reborn, all alone on the street It's a certain sort of stillness When the quiet surrounds you The only sound, your shovel on concrete I...