Try as I may, try as I might,
halve this wish, bend oblique,
in tact, alight. Perched, the
murders of lampblack bust
in the foreground. Shadows
snip the narrows behind me,
valleys gallow below
in pernicious expanse. Eyes
blank, without atom, flanked
by turgid memory. In profile
I am more massive, marble
blue, vague ode to a windless
plain, to the banality
of contemplation, due
diligence, to you, my cryptic
apnea.
Gregg Murray is an
assistant professor of English at Georgia Perimeter College. His most recent
poems can be read in Horse Less Review,
[PANK], Ayris, and Word For/ Word.
Please visit his website for more information, including links to other published
poems, essays, reviews, and scholarship.
