9.28.2009

The Delaware Guardian

I catalog battle wounds,
the language of imprecation.
I live in the river,
the old water splitting the city:
us/them.
They chug along,
lacerating my back,
breaking tides.
Lights out, I tidy their secrets,
the oxidate damage
fluid beneath the temperate air.
Murky flow,
conceal the dead.

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