yellow grass

I don’t hold
  My breath anymore,
Don’t check the door for death.
My stoop is sore, my hope is cold;
      Only so much warmth one can gather
From an ember-hearth less-glowing old.
    It’s a reach to remember
All the heart-bold gambles
  Or late-night, smoky-eyed rambles;
But I’ve not, just yet,
The squat-rights sold.
      While in shoddy shambles,
And ‘neath a droop-pitch of holes,
    The house still-strongly stands
‘Spite the rock of rigamaroles.
  Tenancy here is plenty-hard
And on no map markedly starred,
But my residence is written evidence
      On a postcard of peonies in the box.
Come to me, yet less to me
    Than to the ‘marish socks
It knocks off my trepidatious feet.
  Damn dusky Dickinson,
Though, wholeheartedly, I love her stuff;
She hurt enough for all of us.
      She spanks me for self-pity even now,
Her out-of-tune ditty
    The sacred cow of delineated disaster,
Not at all the playsome lark.
  Even so-accustomed to the dark,
I sober a somber smile
For the briar-scrimmaged mile
      Duty-traipsed by the postmaster
To bring me an image of beauty wild
    That’s not only possible,
But as probable as rain on yellow grass—
  Past-happy to see it, no doubt;
I just needed my head completely out
Of my quite unbeautiful ass.

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