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O Apostrophe! To Possess No Person or Thing

Mark Fleury

O Apostrophe! To possess no person or thing
Means I’m God’s and am Soul. Sunset, dived into
When only its red is left to drink, screams

From the smile of a guitar, saying, in death’s blood,
“I could be given up for as easily as Father
Time grows a beard.”

So I gave up sports for music, unable
To suicide in the river from God’s heart,
Even while asleep at the wheel

Of a cliff, sun sliced apart in a fan.

Voice made robotic by the cancerous sound
Of who I am not: person, name, or object.

Red to yellow, my Father dying is a walk
To a dawn-lapped beach, mask left on the back
Of a chair; dusk basement,
Near a sliding glass door, open.

Eyes bloodshot, strained, to reach the beach,
Now free-fallen into,

Where bonfire worshippers look to the sky to see
Blue, instead of through their own eyes.

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