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The Haunt Patrick J. O’Kernick As if it were the remains of much division and further dividings, as if to mock the numbers penciled between lines and the lines of numbers penciled down pages, as if to frustrate, as if to call to mind erasable days, the presence of the file cabinet presses itself into my life, desk, carpet, wall, and the flimsy, black bookshelf. The shelf shies from the metal, leans toward the door; it’s a short, crooked rectangle, light with angled, unread books. It sings each night a red song through the darkness to my bed—my digital clock, its head. The black throat notes with anxious, shifting lines and shifty numbers; it reminds me of the gothic throats chiseled amongst the angles chasing and the tracks from shadows runaway. Did the peasant hear this red song in the waters’ thuds when the heavens rained? Or had the song, up ‘til then, come from only women’s lips and wounded men—life’s beginnings, means, and ends? Now human lives are filed away, black and white into the grey, and though the clock busies me each day, I pause 29
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