lyrics by Christine Holm, from her poem "(the homeroom heart, acting to make a situation, leaves a note in the glovebox)"
lyrics
to whom it may concern: to whom it
may be disregarded: to drivers on the lookout
for pre-war routes to boundary waters:
to passengers shuffling through gas receipts
and cotton-soft sheets of kleenex with
orange lipstick kissed and blotted and kissed
clean: to this ugly car and the ones we drove,
drove away, drove before:
there is only one cigarette left in here
and not enough lighter fluid for more
than two mistakes. i know you've had
a hard day. why else would you be in
here?
be – vigilant. i was and then i
took a pink penknife from the treehouse
of those little athena neighbor girls,
took it to osseous fixtures around my, oh,
most heartfilled self, meant to splay apart excess
attire but ended up, jesus, so open
i could have been the entire gospel choir singing
a most blessed sunday morning deep
in woodtick territory, tent show preacher,
flame-of-god-on-your-tongue believer—
flame-of-god-on-your-tongue believer.
where went the silken spots? was I
sheeted? were you?
crouched in plastic cattails of a false river-swamp scene,
this is how some marriages happily, so
happily, begin. so happily begin.
almost completely hidden,
reed-thin and whistling. if you find
my passport, please return it with the gun
and your own monologue of expectation.
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