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Marcus Wicker
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The sill plays a cruel joke – thrones me. Frames melording over lawn mower stripes – myself
in a shallow trench. In grass blades. Myself
persisting, despite a dickhead sun – me
in chlorophyll. Early, I find myself
swaying – me! in the black chokeberry, me!
in the rabbit’s throat. Me, the rabbit. Me
dancing out pellets. Out-dancing myself –
my father’s pellet gun, the hawk. The joke
is a bright belly full of dark hopping
along my father’s garden & the joke
small, between wrapped talons, is the hawking
too, is the axe sun, swift, rising, this joy.
This joy, it swallows itself far too soon!
© 2011, Marcus Wicker
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The sill plays a cruel joke – thrones me. Frames melording over lawn mower stripes – myself
in a shallow trench. In grass blades. Myself
persisting, despite a dickhead sun – me
in chlorophyll. Early, I find myself
swaying – me! in the black chokeberry, me!
in the rabbit’s throat. Me, the rabbit. Me
dancing out pellets. Out-dancing myself –
my father’s pellet gun, the hawk. The joke
is a bright belly full of dark hopping
along my father’s garden & the joke
small, between wrapped talons, is the hawking
too, is the axe sun, swift, rising, this joy.
This joy, it swallows itself far too soon!
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