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A HEAVY SUITCASE

For countless eons of unholiness the skin has tried to dissolve and disclose the mess inside, rinse itself in a galvanized washtub of days, hang itself to dry and freshen in a pleasant air of tomorrows outside the forbidden memories lying there beside the softness of them. For numerous eternities fear hid itself –  full of rotting thoughts and forget-me-nots –  under dirty roadside snow filled with discarded sandwich wrappers and smelly aluminum beer cans, dented, blue and cold like the Rockies and the hearts of bruised women whose avalanche of love buried memories in their chocolate doughnut holes beside the rotten totem poles that natives carved from white pines. And one drifts around inside the half balloon of speckled night, not daring to count  Milky Way eyes watching hands fondle the tender things meant for feminine hands. The moon counts to a million in its hide and seek game, glinting and glaring in its wisdom from having seen your sleepy eyes hiding themselves from wanting to understand the boundaries of dreams as the hulking menace of masculinity rises and studies its lesson in a dark and secret world. Heavy suitcases of doubt crush fragile skeletons in the closet below contemporary jackets limply shrugging their shoulders amid new pretenses hanging there. Illusions of safety cuddle in a dusty corner like Daddy Longlegs –  patient, breathless, ready for exposure. The sullen gray sky ridicules someone on a March morning and broken tentacles of trees point blame. Even the broken chalk-like stones a mile away on Hodges’ Hill shout insinuations from under their new white comforter of last night’s snow. At dusk, in the failing sun, those flailing fingers of broken birches bring their sorrow through the picture of chickadee wings and squirrel suppers sitting in my wall amid the neat and pretty things of married life.

Copyright © March 2004 Wayne R. Leach


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