Landscape

July. The houses shrug into themselves

Getting ready. Light and haze in the morning.

The roads are pure and simple. 

I find a box of screws, something 

From my father, now a factor of language.

He could not mend things, my father.

Along with coffee and the newspaper

I find Mahler on the radio.

Mahler who said: “I beat and pound for the dead.” 

 

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Author: stevekuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University

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  1. I come here almost daily to read — your poetry, your musings, your politics — they all interest and often overwhelm me. I think, of late, that you’re a smokeless fire, embers hot — just beautiful.

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