Emily Dickinson’s cuttings
The Dead— Being alive — have forgotten
Memory that God erased
Unclosing gates
on grateful lands
No more Family — that blood matter —
Orbital dust
on an accretion disk
Souls — as One — make suns
& sun-like swing
Sometimes however you cross paths
with a humain
stricken too soon
He’s no dead —
He welcomes daylight
blasting his own face
— with a stuck —
— harrowing smile —
For the sidewalk - you're both on -
Was paved for
the Living Ones
Memory that God erased
Unclosing gates
on grateful lands
No more Family — that blood matter —
Orbital dust
on an accretion disk
Souls — as One — make suns
& sun-like swing
Sometimes however you cross paths
with a humain
stricken too soon
He’s no dead —
He welcomes daylight
blasting his own face
— with a stuck —
— harrowing smile —
For the sidewalk - you're both on -
Was paved for
the Living Ones
