Apocalimbo

 

From the road I see the city

approaching. It reaches out with iron rails

 

and pulls itself toward me like a soldier

belly-deep in the mud. Doctors and nurses

 

clamp off arteries among the wounded. Cars

pass in and out of bullet holes. Iron bridges

 

curse like snakes. A three-legged dog hobbles

from one overturned trash can to the next. 

 

If he finds food, I tell myself, I will take it

as an omen of good fortune. If not, I will

 

eat my guardian angel, before someone else

does. 

 

 

Comments

[Darcy]

It is so hard to write about how your poems hit me. But I can at least say that this one hit me.

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