University of Nebraska Press
Joseph Hutchison - Mortality - Prairie Schooner 77:1 Prairie Schooner 77.1 (2003) 138

Morality

Joseph Hutchison


Mortality

Hard to imagine yourself
in the ground... a shabby mess
of broken spindles, the loom
that cranked out the cloth of you
smashed, scattered - and somewhere
the ego sputtering its rage.
You can hear it now - railing
like a mill-town dowager
piqued, let's say, by the country's
fraying moral fiber. Her spotted fist
gavels the tea table... making
the bone teacups clatter.
"Oh! The very idea!"


 

Joseph Hutchison's work appears in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Luna, and Denver Quarterly. He is author of The Rain at Midnight (Sherman Asher P, 2000) and Bed of Coals (UP of Colorado, 1995), winner of the 1994 Colorado Poetry Award.

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