Arsenic Lobster poetry journal
Issue Fifteen
Winter 2007
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you are here
      for my wife

Barton Smock

it’s old.  this
what have I done, this
dark ship.  the crates
steadfast
in their charge
of silence, the ice
bored
and breaking.
we move
in our cabin
bed
as murdered
light
slinking
through a shut-off.  our hurt
a slack
blue
puppet, bruise
on the dancing
air.  I say
I’m sorry
a net

holds water

your shoulders
too small
for the hand
reaching down
to shrug them.

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