How bittersweet all these punctuations,
as if the worship of a thing might be the thing that breaks it.
The inch of time’s protracted to a foot.
I think without you I might just spin off
to every period ever printed.
I’d like to write, in a continuous swoon.
I blinked. And you were gone.
sharpening the pencil…
a pileated woodpecker
takes flight
a pileated woodpecker
takes flight
Cento Sources: [Billy Collins, “The Best Cigarette,” Laura Kasischke,
“After Ken Burns,” Dylan Thomas, “The Almanac of Time,”
Michael Ryan, “Half Mile Down,” David Hernandez, “Dear Proofreader,”
Dean Young, “Age of Discovery,” Amy Gerstler, “The Ice Age”]
“After Ken Burns,” Dylan Thomas, “The Almanac of Time,”
Michael Ryan, “Half Mile Down,” David Hernandez, “Dear Proofreader,”
Dean Young, “Age of Discovery,” Amy Gerstler, “The Ice Age”]
Richard Matta
the other bunny 