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Dave Bonta

Infernos

the fires we thought far off burn now burn the high places burn down to the water burn poor people in their houses burn wings and the very stones burn every creature burn tar and oil and wood burn art and burn bards burn carcass burn ruin burn the moon we move to thinking that the safest place

Dave Bonta

Love of enemies

I value an enemy head higher than his life if he dies I love him for it a no one who pierces like a thorn

Dave Bonta

Spotted owl

a who who to which we can give no answer the snappish owl is dead and buried we ward off witches and spirits with the noise of profit

Dave Bonta

Breach

my eyes sore I write long into the dark after a drought a good shower of rain but the guns made a hole in people’s discourse

Dave Bonta

Altercation

out of work they break up all the vehemence and rhetoric of wind in the night

Dave Bonta

Cowboy poem

alone with horses you see in what fear people live mad at the dead at Monday even at my drink

Dave Bonta

Trade-offs

in the park they lease new buildings where the morning grew they do all the hurt they can the more a man serves the less he finds of joy like the death of so many things to make me content in my life

Dave Bonta

Bullet point

the war took another which seems my due as if the rain had a design in raining

Dave Bonta

Civics

see how people other others as the news guns gun for our kindness as if they would buy time by the help of a watchmaker

Dave Bonta

Tabloidal

in the papers news is a plague growing and not thinking like an ignorant ear

Dave Bonta

Plus ça change

our vexation at expecting change in society an abortive child preserved fresh in salt we press the little ex-hand and after some time at the office die of apoplexy

Dave Bonta

Where all the flowers have gone

the ought-to-have-been couple raw and pretty to see together gain a year’s distance he hit her that former wit now well married to a war

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