Slate Roof
Photo by Katy Brown, Davis
Photo by Katy Brown, Davis
MAN WITH A SECRET LIFE
—John Haines
I am not the one talking to you,
the one giving directiions—
a hand waving toward a road
that vanishes...
But the one who stands still
in your bones; whose eyelids
lifting above the smoke
of the border fires, remember
the country from which you came.
____________________
—Medusa
—John Haines
I am not the one talking to you,
the one giving directiions—
a hand waving toward a road
that vanishes...
But the one who stands still
in your bones; whose eyelids
lifting above the smoke
of the border fires, remember
the country from which you came.
____________________
—Medusa