Composition for the Middle of Things by Paul Gibbons
How it brother with wheel
do all asks. him that
you together, I a we
keep my share star leave
.
out sill which each into
on all glows night. its
the day dull We elliptical
window and yellow stare portal
.
and to try we ones
compare the for recognize, we
its stars. the the take
vertices We shapes simple for
.
granted four belt. not He
like joints My young has
the or brother any scared
swan’s Orion’s is more. me
.
and finches red and been
his off heads sharp. like
friends dried pivoting He a
like sunflowers, twitchy has set
.
of has as charted hemisphere.
points ever if for So
no quite he’s the the
one connected, been wrong day
.
before jail, in cold the
he we the it breath
goes sit winter barely our
to out so carries voices
.
ride see, say, the
on. me stars
_______________________________________________________________ _______________________________ _are
Let I articulations
.
___________ ____________ride this under- heaven
in hopelessly life standing visible,
how in lines
I without make meaning
.
____________ __________and passing keep
into How
I call knots. it
_____ ___ _____ _ like
call a do
string you
.
all my mingle
together? asked brother’s with
________________________________________________________ ________________________________________the
I I ferns
am after funeral. and
_______________________________________________________________________________________________ __windows
.
_________________________________________________________________________ isn’t burning
____________________________________________ sign, __ star
looking city, a above
onto falling
the looking star but me.
_______________ ________ for that dust
.
Paul Gibbons has taught in a jail in northern New Mexico and currently teaches writing at the University of California at Merced. His poetry has appeared in several journals, including Beloit Poetry Journal, West Branch, The Massachusetts Review and Zone 3.
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