EG CUNNINGHAM





FEAST OF WEEKS


in the end
what was worth leaving
were expectations:

of a story
plotted security

unfilled plots wait
down the road
in the cemetery

my father says soon
he'll go in search of
a custom tombstone

we friends teach
good failure:

of course
of a marriage
of that thought filling life

remind us let us let go
into the bird-blossomed
evening. the painting of

the sky recalls the sky,
reconstitutes that brief
cloud:

a way of stopping time.
may be like Billy says:

water music—a band
in the rain.

if death be thinner than
thin—gust of wind—

orange fragrance—

then time still to know
what the sun is saying:

some self-revealing
transported

until then, let us love
this actuality

linger
in beloved specificity






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