"Boy" - Annelyse Gelman
Update: 2023-01-09
Description
Boy
By Annelyse Gelman
He found himself kneeling in mud
And asked the river for forgiveness.
The river punished him with silence.
His whole life it had consumed him,
The fear of doing it wrong, and now—
He walked among the trees
Like a gallery, uncertain where to start.
Afraid of looking at them wrong or in
The wrong order. His whole life
Even the streamlets, the streamlets had
Shied from him like mice. He _____
To be _____. In the clearing the dew
Evaporates. The grass looks dull, dutiful.
One by one, the components of feeling
Slide around his body without touching his
Body. His body is a snow globe. His thoughts
Snow. In him on him falls the snow. He is
Buried, utterly, like the sea is buried by rain.
By Annelyse Gelman
He found himself kneeling in mud
And asked the river for forgiveness.
The river punished him with silence.
His whole life it had consumed him,
The fear of doing it wrong, and now—
He walked among the trees
Like a gallery, uncertain where to start.
Afraid of looking at them wrong or in
The wrong order. His whole life
Even the streamlets, the streamlets had
Shied from him like mice. He _____
To be _____. In the clearing the dew
Evaporates. The grass looks dull, dutiful.
One by one, the components of feeling
Slide around his body without touching his
Body. His body is a snow globe. His thoughts
Snow. In him on him falls the snow. He is
Buried, utterly, like the sea is buried by rain.
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