i ching poem #9

26. Ta Ch’u (The Taming Power of the Great) / 13. T’ung Jên (Fellowship with Men)

The axletrees are taken from the wagon—Wait.
I am aware of the cat hair on the shower curtain
& will wind packing tape into a sticky club
to remove it when I am through shaking
last night’s dream of a legless woman
beating her child against a window.

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I am almost too afraid to rest
my head tonight. Please forgive me
for asking you to keep talking.
See the mint on the sill rooting
in its jar of water—we
are never so perfectly alone.

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