Japanese Wind Telephone - by
from which the grieving
can dial the numbers
of their lost ones and speak
to the listening dead.
from which the grieving
can dial the numbers
of their lost ones and speak
to the listening dead.
Lord, this is pip-squeak calling.
/ Even with your infinite technology
/ I expect your line’s busy. Therefore
/ forgive me my witter, tucked…
One of the best of minds
/ destroyed by dementia
/
/ does not howl on her knees
/ in the street, does not masturbate
/
/ in the magnolia…
I am sending a message again.
/ Maybe you can’t hear it
/ through all the noise of lights
/ and the dangerous way things…
Eh amna here tae tak yir caa:
Eh’m mebbe aff at thi fitbaa,
Eh mebbe amna here at aa
Nearly all the names and numbers
/ in her leatherette phone book
/ are crossed or scribbled out.
/
/ One of these days I’ll dial
/ a dead…
Go up go down. Sit tight for now. Or move. Don’t move. It’s all in
/ hand. Make a call on…
Da answer phone’s caald
/ ublinkin licht
/ accuses me o da crime
/ at darena spaek hit’s nem.
/ “Look at de,” hit…