The last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead: I am a dish for your ashes, I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about life is finding it gone.
sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems (ed. Zondervan, 2009) - ISBN: 9780061979972