Week 28/Year 2June 28, 2013 by 10partspeanut, literature
Literature
Week 28/Year 2June 28, 2013
Week 28/Year 2
June 28, 2013
Creeping Silver
on two gabbro walls
reflective stones from India
cut and fabricated in Vermont
Tennessee etched the creeping silver
the creeping silver transposed
onto the black gash of shame
onto the mirror preserving our present
presence as marvelously precious
the creeping silver strands streak
across the faces of weeping widows
weeping widowers, weeping mothers
weeping fathers, weeping children
the creeping silver travels off the walls
visits every state in the nation,
every storefront, every front door
every living room, every crib
the creeping silver grows thicker
longer with each passing bullet
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