A Crown of Dust

(a cento)


1

the day could do without
me.

as though time in the heart never started
I dipped my feet into its emptiness
but upon which I lay my skull at night

A hawk flies over summer's body

Dough rising somewhere

The earth saying language and vision
are nothing

                              I
refuse, I refuse.

I worry about lost time
                           I only
borrowed this dust.

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Line Sources:
Taylor Byas, Bejan Matur, Yaxkin Melchy Ramos,
Cate Marvin, Yiannis Isidorou, Ari Banias,
Sandra Lim, Andrea Cohen, Christian
Gullette, Stanley Kunitz