Saturday, March 12, 2011

mcccliii

“Hello, O.  I’m D.”  Christmas in the
Adirondacks.  Aggravating guestwork.

So I make a list of t-shirts and every-
thing comes back to you.  The pressed

hair, the extra sugar.  But the gravity
of such a moment, the expulsion,

an awkward shift from seething
grace to malappropriate.  “But

I don’t do it like that.”  The
big machine twists around

onto its threes, like sluggish
oxen sex, and makes hello.