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Jungftak

from Impossible Bodies by Faith Eliott

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Jungftak


Just over the ridge past the park
and the used car lot where this city meets the sea,
I ditch my bike by the side of the road
and scramble down through the typical shore-line debris

and there in the shadows of decrepit nautical machines
I watch as two gulls fight cold-blooded
for discarded remains of a KFC.
It is moonrise on the empire of the obsolete.

But I still wonder what wisdom the water has for me
and I stand at it’s edge waiting patiently
“just to move”
that is enough, it would seem.

But lately every time I start to speak,
I am parrot-tounged and locked in repeat.
and by the time the words hatch in my mouth
it’s already too late.
I feel the push of sharp shell on my gum
and the shudder of bone on the back of my teeth
I say “hey pretty bird, I love you”
but I don’t know what it means.

And you reply but how sweet it would be
to disappear into that infinite blue
some days as clean as copper ore
some days as dark as a bruise
and you can’t tell me that I didn’t try
but I couldn’t take the weight of all that blue you had inside.

So down by the docks at the end of the day
my boots sinking deep into the heavy black clay
I am alone
I am a fiction
with a hook of bone
and one useless wing beating.

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from Impossible Bodies, released April 19, 2019

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