blackbirdonline journalFall 2015  Vol. 14 No. 2
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Let There Be

Light

at the end

like a deer blind

and nothing doing in the hunt  light


like a cataract

like a Cadillac, slow rise of light



like God’s hand

in the morning held over

against

your own

incineration

you can’t see

light




like a machine

kicking in

the light,



like a pneumatic press your hands caught in  the light

and you can’t

take them


back    in the light



lit up like

a ghost’s tongue,

in the electrical socket

the light waits



just for you

so late into the light of itself

like an ingrown toenail

low


moan of light

last ply of ivory in the commerce of light

a whale’s penis bone



under  the radio’s frequency, light like a soup,

heavy water,



light like a wafer that dissolves before you can get

a good taste

of the light

its



enumerations

dressing and undressing

all day

the light in front, you like a mirror


so naked

the light holding  end




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