Mark DuCharme

from The Betweens

Triggers alongside
What was
Hammers into
Place, while straying

Into view-
But often
Gone
Silently as engines lead

Apart
From exactly the opposite
Wall
Shooting the robust downfall

Was not
An accident; please don't
Slide

The location of
Which could then
Unbuckle

Or not- or reveries
As accidents, stick
Figures (why
Don't you tell me

About them as before
Only the same, with respect
To our distant
Histories
To collide while changing

Into one
Only yesterday-
To swell with inappropriate
Attention

Under the dumb, violent landmarks
I wish you
Knew;
Just as
It wasn't

Fateful in their braying
Exactly what
& What we can

All over the stops
Like noon on the dinette
Hangs
Hangs in packets

Of leaves, I didn't
Want to be the first
To say it
In fact, you knew

So often it
Was physically
Embarassing

Under your face a violent
Downpour- print

Animal needs as
Dwell

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