The Trike Returns:
Root
Brett Hursey
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Cuttings
Some nights your mind can't help
dissolving into dreams
and you feel her shoulders
cupped in your hands again --
the way she grafted
her white, willowy body
to yours while pressing
herself into the pages
of your memory --
the stray petals
from a blighted adolescence
leaving traces of absinthe
on her lips --
a sweet, bitter tinge
you sometimes taste
years later
on the mouths
of other women,
knowing some part
of her will always take root
in any bed
you burrow in --
leaving you to condense
back into consciousness
clutching nothing but air
in your arms.
~Brett Hursey
Brett Hursey's work has appeared in over eighty North American journals. He has published two chapbooks and a full-length collection entitled Some Assembly Required. His latest book, Dead White Poet, has just been accepted for publication. Email.
© 2002 by Brett Hursey. All Rights Reserved.
© Copyright 2002 by Cayuse Press. All Rights Reserved.
This page updated August 31, 2002.