2 Poems

breaking big sky

slick curves banking around the cool misted edges of montana sunbreaks the reservation, sixty miles of crow indian land, no utilities, no services a shambled gas station, thirty in wrought-iron door, puddled mud my foot caked, my shoe lost the men in the back playing something to murder the minutes before the day’s full impact begins shoot us a look while our eyes google at the prospects but the cashier, clad in laguna beach sweater, nail beds collecting dirt knows we’re tourists hands us our change four post-cards laughs with the men mocking our foreign accents ruraled urban melody: in two parts I. dried o of a honeyed mouth in looped lettering motions               swerved unreason dripped quarter note half note plagued melancholy                     & strung surface, glossed               a silhouetted stranger midnight wrens swell melted skylines – blushed browns               pricked thimbles               sliced sails, belabored bays carmelstick finger attachment to an unknown knocking brassy chimes               cheap boxed wines               lingering inebriations II. breadcrumbs: shoelaces / retreats busted rails               &               rusty nails reflections inside(out) mellowed goldfish bowl glow beckons like an autumn’s hymn               lucid lucrative mechanics               scattered glass like broken bones embers etched elements persistent a neon bow               her hydrogen dances               mahogany springtime elegies only the narcissus navigates

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