Out of the Cracker Jack Box

Out of the cracker jack box


2.
The music teacher

I suppose is where
it all comes from.
Years of bad practice
and one day- music.
It's as close as that.
No tension. Open
but no business.

3.
Dance

My choreographer
is a dream
reaching for salt
and finding the sea

4.
Activism

Politics and capitalism.
A bride stripped bare
by her bachelors, even.
You steal their clothes
when you wear them.

5.
A breath

One breath.
All there is.
That's how
things started.
No system.
No argument.
A breath
into a breath,
kissing.

6.
Falling

Everything consumes
everything. A lie
consuming the monumental
in small bites
and being consumed.
Falls, over a cliff.


Scott Malby 2006

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