Wednesday, September 4, 2013

my circus act

Alone in the digger pines
At the end of Piper Hill Road
Cross'd by vulture shadows
I balance the 2 x 8 x 14 redwood skirt
On my knee
Twenty feet up the bent extension ladder
Between my lips a passel
Of sixteen-penny galvanized nails-
Praying nothing shifts

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