Nick Flynn House Poems
- 1. Twenty-pound Stone
It nests in the hollow of my pelvis, I carry it with both hands, as if
offering my stomach, as if it were pulling me forward.
At night the sun leaks from it, it turns cold, I sleep with it
... - 2. Emptying Town
I want to erase your footprints
from my walls. Each pillow
is thick with your reasons. Omens
... - 3. Cartoon Physics, Part 1
Children under, say, ten, shouldn't know
that the universe is ever-expanding,
inexorably pushing into the vacuum, galaxies
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