La parola da casa, Serena Piccoli

5/15/14

“we count the days until the calendar ends”

the peace age or the finale?

i’m still trying to court with words
a sign at street’s edge held over
our people
“gone in the teeth”

is this the search for self or the escape?

when the machine stops,
we’ll have to determine which
system can replace our selling
of hands, eyes of life

then as poets we’ll shift
from protectors to
celebratory singers, and then the
opaque vision will be
obsolete