Wish
By Bruce Covey
Tune yr sandwich to the key of C
Make biscuits in kitchen B
Miss Scarlet with her lead pipe
Waits behind the cupboard door
Clubs one from the other limp
Only to begin again innocent
& nothing to do but gather into
Legion gather into constellation
Coming along then a spider its web
Holds the walls together holds the floor
Up gathers toward a central point
Mean & distribution derivation
To insert a thumb & see what sticks
Past the earth’s crust cirrus
And acidic enough to spoon fork but
Chew & eat & swallow digesting the fact
That nine wonders hope the clouds have
Answers hope the clouds have
Bruce Covey, "Wish" from Glass Is Really A Liquid. Copyright © 2010 by Bruce Covey. Reprinted by permission of Bruce Covey.
Source:
Glass Is Really A Liquid
(No Tell Books LLC, 2010)