For Those Abroad At Night

I made this as a tribute to Terri Witek's poem. I hope that anyone who likes this will be awesome and buy the book that contains this poem, The Shipwreck Dress, it is absolutely wonderful and she is just as wonderful, if you ever get the chance to meet her, TAKE IT v Read More! v

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A Game For Those Abroad at Night

Start with an hour
and circle the village.

Start with a flagpole
at the indigo heart of the square
and circle the village.

Follow a sickle of highway.
Follow one paper route story by story.
Follow a bread truck's little pillows of air
and circle the village.

Circle the library's simmering stacks
(There's no help for you there,
no help for you there).
Circle the duck pond's panicky flare.

Trail a moon thin or thick
but don't fall for a fool.
Circle your stagger
then circle the school.

Circle mosquitoes breeding in buckets.
Circle your parents asleep in chairs.
Circle bees trawling the wax museums of heaven.
Circle the honey,
oh, circle the honey.

Circle a wallet's dream of a gutter.
Circle two silos hungry for summer.
Circle a dish eating waves from the air.
Circle the village.

When you've traded you way
through the loop of a locket
and linked the ends of what isn't there,
as your shadow unfolds again into stairs.

dismiss wick and tallow,
rumor and adage.
Hang the circle you've circled in the air
and kick out the chair,
kick out the chair.

Circle the village.~

Background made with brushes in photoshop, I downloaded them so long ago that I can't remember who made them, if anyone recognizes them, let me know so I can give credit where it's due

Model by the always lovely Faestock,

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