TRUNCATION IN ICELAND
the glaciers like what we are waiting to say
the rivers erode banks’ slow truths
the mountains hiding things we may never say
the volcanoes forgiven for their drunkenness
the oceans and our shared subconscious, dreams
the earthquakes where we all just say the same things
the tornadoes of things said in anger
the hurricanes of cacophony of accumulated convos
the aurora borealis or australis above us, shimmering
the forests of silence, except for the wind in needles and leaves
a lake of us together–ripples from our canoes’
circles all around from the drops of rain
concentric epics with every impact
upon the undulating surface
Venn diagrams infiltrating their eddying
we are dropping the paddles
breaking the rudders
just waiting as the sky above
becomes the water below
and what we say is now only
about the stars; we’ve forgotten
the shores
do we need to go home, ever again?
Joseph V. Milford published his first collection of poems, Cracked Altimeter, with BlazeVox Press in 2010 and has another collection of poems, Tattered Scrolls And Postulates, Vol. I, from Backlash Press (2017). He edits an online literary thread, RASPUTIN (http://rasputinpoetry.blogspot.com/), which publishes poetry exclusively.
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