Durham, etc. Blues

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& on the 1st line is scribbled
the words “durham blues, 2008”
as no lament, but the
passing and arrival of
horizons old & new

Blues to capture the sounds
of this new year’s afterbirth.
The clinks and clanks of
counterfeit crystal
The trembling bubbling over
of bong-water & a
hissssssssssssss
of smoke escaping
into the welcoming womb
of January.

Blues to capture the delicate
uncertainty of grinding bones, a neck
that cracks slightly when
in revolution, a result of
slumbers in a hallway, outside
bedrooms of envious disarray
atop a mattress lacking air
but collecting stagnant pools
of stale Yuengling

Blues to capture the disorientation of
awakening in a destroyed room.