for Elvis Presley
loneliness
persists in its singing --
with a net of words
I catch the night,
nail it to the ceiling
Sketchbook, 6:3, May/June 2011
A Room of My Own: Home, Sweet Home
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*Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words*, XLI: "home"
boom, boom, boom
outside the steel safe room
with his ears covered
a boy sings,* If I had wings*
*l...