October 2010
11 posts
“I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I’ve always been good at...”
– A Million Little Pieces
Michael Teig
…
I spent too much time thinking.
I mean drinking.
I know when the time comes,
I’ll take my body off like a hat,
drift out past slatted houses festooned with light,
past trees nodding at the river’s edge
and all those small farms and field mice.
I’ll come back to you. I’ll come back
like a little girl up reading a book.
She drops an eyelash on each page.
She makes a wish and...
