Prose and Poetry from Web del Sol

 

 

ELEGY ANALOGY 1

the boy you knew who went through the ice
is to

your complicity in his disappearance
 
as:
  
 

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
k.
l.
m.
n.
hacked-up :: fixed
your guilt :: your scorn
to take heart :: make a fist
to mourn :: take form
to need :: enliven
the ether :: the knife
to knead :: to unleaven
the hole :: the coal
barges miles out on the lake :: how they list to take the word from stone :: bring it home the petal :: the pistil
the womb :: the bomb
to watch :: to desert
to write it :: to deserve it

 


   first published in Fence