Painting by Austin Kleon
A Dream of Suffocation
Accountants hover over the earth
like helicopters,
Dropping bits of paper engraved
with Hegel's name.
Badgers carry the papers on their fur
To their den,
where the entire family dies
in the night.
A chorus girl stands for hours
behind her curtains
Looking out at the street.
In a window of a trucking service
There is a branch painted white.
A stuffed baby alligator grips
that branch tightly to keep away
from the dry leaves on the floor.
The honeycomb at night has
strange dreams:
Small black trains going round and round--
Old warships drowning in the raindrop.
Robert Bly
Posted over on Fat Poetry Book
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