stuart z. perkoff - love is the silence - arras.net

2.
it is on consideration of time that
the past cannot blind
us, cannot bring the sweat
rigid on the body
as tho to say
there is now no sun
no dust
no street
no risk & need that dance in the shimmering air
no visions of distance & of
that face so close & deadly on our own
3.
i wd think to look
where the vultures look: at the
meat. the dead
flesh. the broken face that
stalked & stared & took careful
watch, &
fell
at what even now
in these narrowed rooms
raises the smell of blood
to the nostrils