Dead Grandpa fell down stairs last night. He didn't
bump much, a thing of ectoplasm mostly,
but made the clocks run backwards 20 minutes,
and all the photographs began to weep.
At times like these we know Dead Grandpa's with us,
a waning disincarnate sort of Gramps
who knows things--like what fish forks are--he never
knew before, but he cannot help us much.
He tries, we know: that's why at 2 a.m.
he's mounting stairs and falling, featherweighted,
on the Oriental runner in a heap,
light, light, like the yellow leaves or spindrift.
3 comments:
I like it. It's poetic.
Not sure I'm complimented--or meant to be, but, um, thanks.
This is another one that I always liked and even tried to steal, but it turns out crime does not pay. It will, however, lease with an option to buy.
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