STEPHANIE ANDERSON

 

                                     



CLACKING AND PERHAPS

 

 

Keeping murk from giving way
to monochrome. Learning rooms.

Waked is not disbelieved but difficult
to determine. As color, as eye is apparition.

Inside an outline of hills and trees
really just a darkened, an over-exposed

take printing to various black, a horse
pulling a carriage keeping pace. How

can it keep pace? Surging as a ship
leading a heavy load, no face in the window.

Clacking and perhaps it was the only
time I've heard the exhalation of a

memorable man. My guardian was
tall, vinegar and leather, which sharpened

as it sunk in cloth. Someone said
he was a memorable man. After I buried

the polish I brought up dusty cider,
bottled, and a churchkey. Made him

a sandwich. Air forced from his whole
frame like horse's breath, churchkey

clacking and perhaps a myriad of bells.
Slowed again, bad track or town-crossing,

a man calling Clarton!, buggy gone
and early morning a dirty whitewash.




 

                                                                                                      

 

      

 

                                   

 

 


TYPO 17