Brad Vogler

    

Walking Poems

*
hands dirtied w/ said work
                                                earth

(-ward) held branches

same forgotten
                         names/sound

            of held hands behind one

what distance can/do wearied legs make?

                                                                        many

breathe varied sighs
                                    slow
mouth
soft mouth
sighs
an offering

hammered shouldered hold
of the day's work

work      held days

*

embodied of waiting
                                    windows

wintered lake changes
wintered windowed lake
changes with distance
                                                to
                                                from

sides
in/out
one/another

distant

steps unpack voice
                                                to
                                                from

 

 

*

this sound shadowed
voice     trying    
sound
shadowed sound trying     voice

shadowed voice
                                                hearsay
 
distanced
(weathered)
                        tired trying

days upon one
                         upon days

hands of want/work wear tired wrists

*

shade
                        heavy shade
grass   
            won't
                        year round
rooted wanting

                                    page after page of places
                                    the old house
                                                            stays

 

here of noises
all noise now
wintered hand to the knob
tractored          sound
                                    blades down
deck hover
                        echoed over lawn
                                                            and over

avoided that way
                        avoided
steps                                        over
            mordent steps
sometimes avoided

                                                a limping engine
distant

modified movement modified
on old/wronged knee
on won't
                        the old/right way
favoring wrecks
                                    the right eventually

*

leaf dust crumbled
                                    crumbled leaf
dust
crushed
                        beneath goings

peopled goings
                                    winding

wind dried
            dry wind died down
                        died out

*

nod at
and over
                        over

and (won't/will)
                        want
            words
wants
            prosed over
ice(d) sheet
                        over
buries
            but breaking
breaks
                        open
cracks
            a track
open
            mouth

 

 


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