MM.11:121DOUG TANOURY
Private Collection
(A Hollywood Park Poem)
In the moment
I saw legs and lower torso
Protruding from a cardboard
Refrigerator box legs twisted together
Toes curled
And I knew
A person no more fragile than
An appliance was asleep
In a cast off
Brown box like the hard skin shell
A locust will shed and leave empty
In the grass
That shelters in the shadows
That now serve as packing and
Shipping material for heartbreak
And rasping respiration
That sits along the sidewalk
And shelters the dreamer from
A cool breeze on a Spring morning
And from the first weak light
That rises softly above the
Low brick buildings
from The Voice Of Bartemaus---Five New Poems By Doug Tanoury
Poem, © 2000, DOUG TANOURY
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