Grand Tour by Elisa Gonzalez

Author:Elisa Gonzalez [Gonzalez, Elisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

SUNSET

A trampled carnation, or the red jacket sleeve

blurred on that girl quickening

after the ball

draws my mind

to the ship that I am told

is coming, preparing to anchor.

I am turned toward the sea.

It pauses at the bay’s red mouth:

When everyone seems so happy, why does it delay?

IV

THE ICE STORM

felled the hawthorn.

All furred in crystal, everywhere

the extravagant declaration of ice.

Over the carcass roamed

my ungloved palm.

My tender, curious fingers.

Nevertheless,

in the months that passed,

the earth warmed.

The neighbors inquired politely

if I would ever get rid of that dead tree,

it was an eyesore, really a menace.

I didn’t oil the chain saw, I didn’t hack away

the crown of branches.

Refusal, my life.

Occasionally I dreamed of a bonfire.

Like Savonarola, I concluded

the only way to purify was to burn.

Lighter fluid. Limbs woven

over kindling. I could see it.

The possibility of a brilliant end.

My chapped hands laid

a circle of stones

to witch the flames.

But a wet spring came upon us,

and my dreams went dark,

after which I learned there are several methods

for disposing of the dead.

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