in denim and wool
days on days in succession
almost procession
almost ceremony
mutual aggression
Ribs clenched against cold
and the earth's own body
packed tighter and tighter
against ours
We tensile march through one another
steadily toward denser degrees
limestone into marble
veined with crushed sediment
At last a winter Pieta
one as crucified as the other.
dec 2011
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