Saturday, June 16, 2012

This particular night

In attempt to come to terms with the betrayal without giving up on the promise
hid blackness in the quickest place
not the safest
 or where the heart is              for Americans who can't find peace in the valley without a touch of longing for that other frontier where Robert Johnson passes for a moment, petrified, running down some pliant town scene of a child of a road like the whole voodoo run down into a ditch made of you-- are why he's glancing over his shoulder with a smile