Sunday, June 5, 2011

and i will always be nicer to the cat than I am to you

from "Before Surgery" by Dorianne Laux

In another life you might slip under canal after canal
on a coracle boat, look up to see river light
scribbling hieroglphs on the curved undersides
of each stone arch. You might hear

an echo, the devil's fiddle
strummed just for you, and you might sing , too,
unbuckle your voice.

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