The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems

Char’d Endings

78 shAron dolIn Char’d Endings Of ruined and transcendent lovers There is no absence that cannot be replaced In their carnivorous landscape It’s you my father who are changing Leaning on your reflection in the window Already the oil rises from the lead again Beloved! Feel the dark planting waken Woman breathes, Man stands upright The earth loved us a little I remember Like a horse aimless at his bitter plowing Failure is of no moment, even if all is lost everything swoons into transiency Keep us violent and friends to the bees on the horizon such is the heart I hurt and am weightless ...