Peter Gizzi

Just Behind the Day

     
     (Toy)
     
     You resist an ocean evaporating outside your head
     You resist rain discovered outside small rooms
     
     You resist daybreak invisible from grief
     And the hollow inside is the shape of a flower
     
     So the mouse has a purpose within its tiny office
     And the butterfly isn't alive as a symbol ever
     
     So that the smile independent from a person
     And those glad tidings becoming empty
     
     Look away from the joy of restorative morning
     Easily opening to complete the long night
     
     You are done in by sunrise and rightfully so
     And those renewed theatrics of the skyline
     
     Undo the hygiene of the visible body
     Unlike a dove closing its wings at dawn
     
     Go with a simple song, unbind yourself
     Making sure to hide your giddy surface
     
     
     
     

Copyright © 1996 Peter Gizzi

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