Today After Rain
Today after rain
the streets are bare
and smell only of dust.
The service station is broken
and the cars sleep like bodies of beetles
pinned in line by the careful
hand of an entomologist.
The sky opens like a cabinet
and inside there is blue
but then quickly
clouds move and the door
slams shut. A collapse
of black on the ground
and down each street
there is no [...]
At Lacy Madden’s Grave
For my great-grandfather Lacy Madden on the occasion
of the rededication of Mountain View Cemetery July 10th, 2009
At Lacy Madden’s grave I’m thinking
about the Battle of Vimy Ridge and Hannah Montana,
the pop starlet my daughter dreams of in hues of burnt sugar
and sass. I don’t know for sure if Lacy fought at Vimy
but I do know [...]
