Dark temple veins light hands
flickering light delivered by crows & ravens
White landscape holiday bells
Dreadful drastic inelastic
Then the rasp of voices the carpenter’s
hammer
an aunt who’s been living in her heart a long
time
Sad place deserted world giving testimony
to a small fallen apple assigned to me by God
Gurgling & boiling violent noises
resurrected images each word a pebble
No prodigy merely a valley road
imperative instincts ripening into outcome
Petitioned & ignored visited by sunlight
smoke & thunder crib bondage night & day
Shame & glory pain & pleasure
a physical vestige to be loved unclean
About John Grey:
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, North Dakota Quarterly and Lost Pilots. Latest books, ”Between Two Fires”, “Covert” and “Memory Outside The Head” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in California Quarterly, Seventh Quarry, La Presa and Doubly Mad.
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