Wednesday, January 17, 2024

CHOATIC PRAYER FOR DAVE (1)

everything you need and everything you are prayer. a bear a buck a beer prayer. a river a mountain prayer. cold water prayer, a windy sky prayer, floody muddy boot woodsmoke prayer. a warm truck deep chest prayer. sinking tracks through the snow prayer. cotton detergent tobacco lighter fluid Right Guard prayer. I think you loved all of me prayer. I you prayer.  stoplight prayer. neil young prayer. sleep with the sky under a simple wreath prayer. baby animals parading behind your slow lumber prayer. keep protecting with your wide reach prayer. drive slow prayer. hold your own torso and look down, kicking the gravel and garnets in the road. gravel prayer. garnet prayer. the fish and buck tattooed in thin lines on your arm prayer. the places you took us prayer. the cds that were in the truck  prayer. me too short for the truck prayer. me getting the truck stuck and you being able to fix everything prayer. you on the landline. you sick of bad things happening, you growing up, growing your beard, stopping by, being curious, being suspicious. suspended up in trees prayer. overflowing prayer. daughters prayer. coolant for the cross country drive prayer. sick of these words because you would not like them prayer. prayer for your neck and your chest punctured. prayer for your blood meeting the air. laid out on the road prayer. whatever you yelled prayer. knowing something i don’t prayer. crack the world open prayer. voice like a story prayer. the stars and moon.

6 comments:

  1. <3 <3 <3 sick of these words bc you would not like them/whatever you yelled

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  2. This poem is so intimate and knowing and so distant and wanting. I love you.

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  3. sick of these words because you would not like them

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