September 29th, 2010

For sleepless nights, a poem

“Moles,” by Paul Farley

Within sight of the blue of the sky,

with meadow scents and the song of birds

as the gradient slackened, he looked back to find

more emptiness than he thought earth held.

 

In this version of the myth

we leave him there, helpless and blind,

skimming for worms in the topsoil, cursed

with shovels that can’t even hold a lyre.

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