MINOR CHORDS (2.9.07)

Minor Chords

Minor chords

         those daggered notes
         that impale your heart

    `          their stems
       
                     hung
                           with
                                rocks

               seeming to drag you down

exist instead so that in those black gaps of the clock
when the world’s pulse feels smothered by snowdrifts
and you cannot hear the footsteps of a single soul

         not even your own

you catch your breath suddenly as if
         hit
         by ice-cold water and realize,
               “I am not alone.”

        –Scott Schumaker
 


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