A Carcass Home

I killed a rabbit
He laid it on a stump
We went deeper

Or did he take
aim behind me
firing as I did
so I would think I had done
what I thought he wanted me
to do

He must have known a larger thing would take it

must not have wanted to carry the carcass home

I want the body

or what’s left of it

mulch from the pelt

bone in a crow even
the bullet alone

I want that death back

1
 Or did he
ordidhe
take
so
what I thought he
thought he we
wanted went

firing as
aim

a stump
deeper

2
 Lunch
beside a steeply coursing
stream

rush of ions the current’s

invisible divine aura
which I breathed in and
someplace always breathe

his Schlitz, my Sprite

chilled in the downstream
bib of a boulder
asp
asp of our pop-tops

sun through May’s

agape trees

neon-blue body trans

lucent wings of a

Darning needle
he says

His curly hair

combed
up in front > a
pompadour
( like men not
offering
aid & comfort to the
enemy
wore it
then
)

Littering the
swollen underwater our
aluminum
tabs > twin
tongues

3
 hemustnot
have
wanted
have
known a
or
didhe
ordidhe take
even the
bullet I
alone
breathed in
May’s
to carry the
tocarrythe
agape he must
have not have must
nothave
the
carcass

trees

4
 Darning
needle > four
wings four

syllables in amber

four tin cans plinked from a plank

I had a father aFather he

bought me a .22
Rimfire

the
exact
exact
wings of a
one I

(want that nothave must

not
have )
wanted

5
 wings like the
cellophane
stained glass
in a train-set
church

moved the mini Huey bodies

through cattails sumac
purple
sedge as
as words through
( timber
timber
line timber

wolf
)
through

mind

6
 & comfort to the
firing as I tothe
sun through
that death or what’s

bone
called also to the
darning needle

enemy

7
 to carry the
trans -
lucent
we

or
did he
we went

and
alone to
carry the wi
ng s ofa wanted
a larger a
timber
wolf
a
carcass
wings ofa
asp
asp
a

carcass home

8
9