Belonging: Poems

Games

Games What metaphor is adequate? What image makes a baggy fit? What trope Might cope? Floods behind levees rising higher Smooth as a psychopath’s desire, Until They spill? Termites devouring from within, Till wall and floor are merely skin And all Will fall? The grinding of tectonic plates? What power, when mass on vast mass grates, Could halt Earth’s jolt? Nothing so gross or grand you say. But now that every (every!) day Confirms That worms  You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. Or fire will feed on you—and soon— What’s the appropriate slow tune? The phrase Which says That you, for all your games, for all You might describe, invoke, recall, Or cherish, Will perish?  You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...