Bearfish Grotto

artwork by Dale Houstman

Bearfish Grotto

Last Look Before World's End

 

Stalking the House

Looking for someone

 

To Read passages to.

Getting on the phone,

 

If it comes to that.

Dogearing the epilogue.

 

Drinking red wine.

Waiting for nightfall.

 

Lighting a candle before

Studying the appendices.

 

Writing a salutary review

That begins, "A book

 

For all times and places . . ."

Outside, hungry crows

 

Pecking at the remains

Of a downed kite. Dawn:

 

Cotton-ball cloud dabbing

The sky's slashed wrists.

--Jarret Keene

 

 

Jarret Keene teaches at Florida State University where he serves as the editor of Sundog: The Southeast Review. His stories, essays, and verse have appeared in recent issues of ACM, Atlanta Review, Chelsea, Connecticut Review, Florida Review, New England Review, South Carolina Review, Texas Review and others. His most recent collection is Meat Out of The Eater (Superstition Street Press, 2000)

 

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