LACUNA

Let me slowly ease down this silk rope
Tied on my faithless dog
Ma, remember the time I said I hated you,
Well, I don’t and,
          I don’t know how I can start to be entranced by light and dark with this spiral
ing melancholy that I feel underneath this swell, but where did she go?
Mama          rock me and let the scenery rain on the grave
          But I know it’s lost on the brass treetops and crawling clear brown water pouring
and I still don’t know how to tie my shoelaces
and feel the first burning cut of razor shaving legs
I can’t get through on this line, plastic cord tied
Hello?          still, not a whisper in the zephyrs echoing your voice
Mama, I grow weary now and again
Tired of always treading behind
waiting for a call just to check on me
search for me, Mama, search for me
search for one of us.
Let me slowly break down this silk rope
Tied onto my faithless dog
Ma.