When I peeled off the white shirt
ketchup-stained from the hot home fries
in Beasejour I found the red creep
of a wood tick picked up in Giroux
on the collar which I killed
using a shed button from a shirt
I got you for your birthday
standing in the Downtown Bay fingering
Arnold Palmer's seasonal stripes
(green gray blue) and thinking
of the long cool slope of your back
the set of your shoulders and also
how nothing stays clean
2 comments:
Love this, though it took me a while to figure out what a "shed button" was, then another while to figure out how you'd kill a wood tick with a button...
A good little reflective piece--inspired by my arch nemisis the wood-tick. Yech!
I too ran into trouble with shed button, and thing simply moving it to "button shed" clears it up.
I also had some trouble with sharpness and clarity around these lines:
"I got you for your birthday/
standing in the Downtown Bay fingering"
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