Edmund Berrigan

Throwaway

Another milkman stitched
His portico in shower silk
A daily slog of chemical activity
Mourn o falsetto would you be xtian
Where down by the wheel we all like to kneel
Joint cut plastic kiss on the potable edge
This is where hallucinations struggle to lose
A hill patched with flowers and bees
Diffident strides a-pondering
Crying to the mothridden archetypes of Seth
For subjects with whom to objectify with death
To decipher the ornament I retrieve my mount
When alcohol was a nation with a drawer full of stallions

Edmund Berrigan

Edmund Berrigan is the author of Disarming Matter from Owl Press, as well as several chapbooks, including ‘Your Cheatin’ Heart’, from Furniture Press, and
‘There’s No’, from Angry Dog Press. He also has a CD of music forthcoming on Goodbye Better Records, under the name I feel tractor.