Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Panther Winds

 Panther Winds

 

The poet with the false voice

Is laboring to be true as the

Blast of a truck horn

On a foggy morning

Crossing the Jacob Fork River.

True as the motionless cows

Grazing on tick weed by a

Sour gap of stunted maples.

Panthers are just one of

The things he doesn’t believe:

Existence being the better part

Of blood proof he also applies

To gods and any holiness

A man might assign

To beer kisses or

Half fuzzy shadows,

Convinced he has found

Himself in the distance

And the absence of light.

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