- The Risk
You ponder grass.Blades which aren’t weapons greenthrough process natural
though without corrosion.Is this a reaction to my sight somethingwild in pupils shadow too pitch?
The car I’m in is fast silver.The other two inside I don’t caretalking about snow in a few weeks.
The first snow a daughterwill see on Christmas no bikinis this year.Violet sky copper
fingers are clouds fading to ice.Look up. Look at me the dangerthis tranquil man has become. [End Page 507]
MYRONN HARDY is the author of three award winning books of poems: Approaching the Center, The Headless Saints, and Catastrophic Bliss. His fourth book, Kingdom, will be published in the fall of 2015 (New Issues Press). He divides his time between Morocco and New York City.