Wednesday, October 13, 2010

American Night Song

We

have wonderful dermatologists and terrible doctors.


We

don't like clear glass,

we

like it dirty enough to hold us--

a dancing ghost--

up to our own inspection.


We

have all sung the same song

to a backwards drone,

sung the same song together,

sung harmony alone,

sung an unhip smile

that we come to become atoned,

sung hymns like sickle hums

against the rivered stone.


But you still dare to ask me questions.
Don't you ever do you shy?

3 comments:

Jeff said...

I like it. I like "sung an unhip smile". Smile is jarring, unexpected. "Sung hymns like sickle hums / against the rivered stone" has a great sound to it and is grammatically overlapping and complex.

Nice work.

Susie said...

I like 'sung harmony alone'!

Lydia Colleen said...

I don't much know you but your stuff is great Jesse, assuming you wrote this.