Poems by Ian Finch
Divorce
Two streetlights
throw me
two shadows,
letting my head
rest lightly
on my chest.
Truckstop
A black sausage
broke the yolk:
a rocket stuck
in the moon's eye,
passing over
the star-flecked counter.
Settling In
They're calling for rain
again
and since the basement stones
look dark from flooding
I've painted all my windows
shut
so we can finally see
what floats and what sinks
5 a.m.
in the corner of a
corner of the city
the unseen sweetness
licked up by a fly's legs,
eyelashes ten million times
more sensitive than a tongue
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