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Winter Prayer
-- Neil Covey The clouds are out--no moon, no Venus, But we do not need a moonless night To tell us of the dark between us. This is not a truth requiring sight. For here, for us, sight will not suffice; It can't tell cold, nor can smell reveal The danger of black, deceptive ice, And touch falls short; it doesn't feel The one thing that is most palpable-- A thing we can only almost taste, So silent ears aren't capable To catch--this all too perfect sense of waste. Watch over us as we take our chances, Who try to... Continue reading
Posted Dec 30, 2012 at Neil Covey's blog
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First Blood
I stood by you when you were circumcised. The doctor joked man always fantasized about one hand on his penis and another stroking his head. I doubt any brother has ever yearned for how that dream passed for you that day, a urologist down below and your father up above while a nurse made sure you couldn’t move: your head strapped down, your arms and legs held back in a kind of miniature torture rack. Your cries, though small, were strong, echoing, reaching back to memory, where they remain. He did use novocaine: a ring of blood pricks (and that’s... Continue reading
Posted Mar 27, 2011 at Neil Covey's blog
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What's your #1 complaint about your body skin? What do you wish you could change?
A Whiff of Something
I caught a whiff of something this morning
I don’t even know . . .
riding in back of a pickup
loving the wind
dead men talking up front about senators
cotton fields surrounding us
in high, Arkansas, summer
we turned down to the ferry at Bartholomew Bayou
it aint there no more
there’s a bridge
the water was slow and green
trees huddled over us
buzz of high heat enfolding us
I must have caught a whiff of something then
looking at the skeleton in Mammoth Cave
leg broke and waiting for what was bound to come
they turned the lights out and everything was dark
Stop
Breathe
we are evolved perfectly
blind fish in a cave
belonging exactly where we are
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Posted Feb 12, 2011 at Neil Covey's blog
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