Filling the space below the shingles since 2008

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Key Largo

Recognize a hurr’cane first / by the absence of birds

Sudden forgetting what / s’already been forgot

Do limes color branches / does moss cover manses

Can the trees and stonewalls / keep them, their itching palms

Til the storm smothers dawn / blacks out dusk, splits the yawn-

-Ing world back on its jaws / hinging there on its aw

Ful moon, uvula ball / “It’s your head and your whole

Life against you, McCloud” / the weepers are low-bowed

Seminoles on your porch cry / for someone other than you

Sheltered shivering in the white cold eye.

1 comment:

Kate said...

Ok, so epic fail on my own assignment because I couldn't get frickin movie stills or video of "Key Largo" with Bogart and Bacall...but that was the idea.