letters to a young undertaker
[Echo’s Dogs]
You grew up with 30-plus
Different dogs with names like “Little Dog” and “Latecomer.”
(The time between being a puppy and being
a dead dog is called “life.”)
You will recall
When you wanted to know what missing feels like,
I said “hunger,”
And you said “for a person?”
And then you said “like cannibalism?”
And then I said “yes.”
[Domestic Spacerace]
I like it when I look out a window
and can’t see any other windows. Ours is a simple joy,
clinking glasses.
So what if they demoted Pluto;
it’s still on the rocks, and it’s also still
neat to me.
Dear life, thanks
for being my life.
Hubble glints out there like a pond, a proud American eye.
Clinking glasses is how focus works,
like a matter of fact
of distance, like I like it when I look out a window
and see you in the yard.
[Home of the Standstill Parade]
It was a hard freeze we were up north there were fishhouses
decorated to look like only fish or only houses there were kids
grappling with a lot of candy my sister was there
nobody cared about the wattage of anything the streetlamps were dull
as knives in candle light it’s not just that your uncle
was drunk it was everyone had a drunk uncle the fish float
was built on a hay wagon dragging down the main
drag throwing candy wet inside the wrapper your discomfort is contagious
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