wanderer rolls in half soliloquy
sick heart and eastern sky
death’s fair strokes to guide,
dull pain brings him alone
heart a charnel cave,
crushing cigarette in thumb twists
till nearly ground to nothing,
love once lit and believe
as it was then
snow now hated
broke about the house
fathers silver face tribute to strength
went from kitchen warmth to boathouse,
breast no longer sleeps
coronal shine through window,
gunshot one pause enough to vow
gunshot two now white marble will tell,
should i be penitent kneeling praying
wrestling with tears,
i saw his return crimson and gold
shotgun on shoulder,
mother has gone away he said
my laughing brow could not find a way,
i wished for nothing but hair golden
to weave light to the day
police came lights kaleidoscopic
around ceiling and stars
with my uncle i grew,
now back in this timbered and brick town
to see what remains
house now fallen into decay
this heart of man
was now my peace,
lay flowers in silence
remember my prayer
shadows have now moved underground
and will stay

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