"Please lay down

why?

I need you to lay down

will it take long?

not at all

will my father know?

yes

will my mother object?

shh now

can I pray first? 

yes"

 

How easy it is

to bequeath a   

stopped breath,

to point towards- 

at arms length

or twenty fields

-the gasp from fire,

how easy to reload

and hold

the repeated 

sigh,

as if further proof

of that stopped breath 

were needed.

 

words and foto  Tommy Carroll