Midnight

[virgovenus]

Speak to me, aching heart: what

Ridiculous errand are you inventing for yourself

Weeping in the dark garage

With your sack of garbage: it is not your job

To take out the garbage, it is your job

To empty the dishwasher. You are showing off

Again,

Exactly as you did in childhood--where

Is your sporting side, your famous

Ironic detachment? A little moonlight hits

The broken window, a little summer moonlight,

Tender

Murmurs from the earth with its ready

Sweetnesses--

Is this the way you communicate

With your husband, not answering

When he calls, or is this the way the heart

Behaves when it grieves: it wants to be

Alone with the garbage? If I were you,

I'd think ahead. After fifteen years,

His voice could be getting tired; some night

If you don't answer, someone else will answer. 

 

Comments

[lihim]

bro......................................... i like this one a lot

louise gluck is equal or greater in bastardness to richard siken for sure.

[virgovenus]

or is this the way the heart
Behaves when it grieves: it wants to be
Alone with the garbage

Re: louise gluck is equal or greater in bastardness to richard siken for sure.

[lihim]

oh my god yea. actually first discovered her work when ash rec'd me october and i felt like :)? so it's like thet. now i've been slowly reading through faithful and virtuous night