The Forecast by Michael Dumanis I carry myself out into the rainswept blur. I lift my pleasant voice over the coming flood. I have nothing to do that I'm going to do. I keep meaning to purchase a dog. I keep waiting
to email you back. When I see you again will I know who you are? Once I wove you a mask of rattan and hair. Once I carved you a mask of painted wood. I brushed my wooden leg
against your wooden leg. We had learned to imitate each other's breath. When I see you again will you know who I am? Will you place your words back into my open mouth? Once I held you for years
in the stones of my eyes. You were an ineluctable act of God. Into the drainage ditch we hurled our toys. |
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Copyright © 2013 by Michael Dumanis. Used with permission of the author. |
About this Poem: "My first memory--I must have been two years old, at most--dropping a toy pail from my baby carriage into a deep cement drainage ditch and watching my grandmother walk frantically around the ditch, not knowing how to get the pail out. The masks in question hang in the Menil Collection in Houston as part of a group of objects once owned by Surrealist painters."
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