| C D Wright from Deepstep Come Shining Everyone in their car needs love. Car love. Meat love. Money love. Pass with care. Deepstep, Baby. Deepstep. The boneman said he would take the blinded driver to the river. With a mirror. And then what. The boneman said he would take the blinded into a darkened room. And put a hot-herb poultice on their sightless face. Mellein for this mullein for that. We called it flannel. Then leave them there. The baby sister of the color photographer had a baby girl in the hills. Born with scooped-out sockets in the head. Born near the tracks they sprayed with Agent Orange. The railroad's denials, ditto the army's. They would have been blue. The eyes. She did not have. Blue as the chicory in yonder ditch. We see a little further now and a little further still She said her lights would be on and they were Groping around the sleeping house in our gowns Peeping into the unseen Beautiful things fill every vacancy Next |