Roger Reeves

Poems

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It turns out however that I was deeply / Mistaken about the end of the world / The body in flames will not be the body / In flames but just a house fire ignored […] You were never meant to be human / You must be the grass / You must grow wildly over the graves

More than transfigurations, / There are so many moments of grace I will never understand— / Mint growing at the entrance of a graveyard, 'the wind / Resting its cheek on the ground, the sun slipping / Into a boy's pocket and warming an unpeeled orange, / Stars echoing in the leaves of the live oak, / Basil on sliced tomatoes, the fish below the ice, roses / Rising through the red, green, then golden harvest / In the worst autumn, winter, spring, your foot, / Your foot across mine in bed on a day the dead walked / Into our house without taking off their shoes

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