{"id":63,"date":"2009-07-23T21:56:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T02:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?p=63"},"modified":"2009-07-23T21:56:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T02:56:12","slug":"daniel-crocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/2009\/07\/daniel-crocker\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Crocker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Falling Off<\/h3>\n

Daniel Crocker<\/a><\/em>, July 2009<\/a><\/h5>\n

Ashes like a Cathedral I
\nknock upon<\/p>\n

I made Chili and you
\nweren’t hungry<\/p>\n

Our house is a resultant tone
\njust for rhyme
\nI\u2019ll say that I haven\u2019t felt my bones in ages
\nfat grows when bodies stall<\/p>\n

I ask you to eat
\nbut there are the headaches again<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s strip this to the bare bones, shall we
\nI\u2019m ill<\/p>\n

The map hanging in the hall
\nis outdated
\nbut walking my fingers across it tonight
\nMontana, Wyoming
\nsomeplace is warmer<\/p>\n

I look for images
\nbut they aren\u2019t found
\nat this computer
\nthey aren\u2019t found in poems<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important that you eat
\nbefore you disappear<\/p>\n

Sometimes I think
\nI\u2019ve taken a curtain
\nin my sleep
\nand held it over you
\nmade up a few words
\nand poof<\/p>\n

This time the magic is real<\/p>\n

you raked the yard
\nand the leaves are still falling<\/p>\n

The tree strips
\nlike a dark bone
\nfull of fist<\/p>\n

I noticed a knot in our pine
\nI thought of Freud
\nIt didn\u2019t even make me horny<\/p>\n

My poems for you always turn out like this
\nsnap out like a light<\/p>\n

Do either of us
\nremember what it meant
\nto be young and in love<\/p>\n

In love pays the bills
\nand takes us to the occasional movie<\/p>\n

The risk is gone<\/p>\n

We shit in front of each other
\nand the days stall
\nlike that<\/p>\n

And there are nights
\nwhen the fingers of my left hand
\nwant to keep walking
\nAnd my right hand stops them
\nwith a grasp more violent
\nthan I\u2019ve ever shown you<\/p>\n

We are poor and we live<\/p>\n

and if all the great poets
\nrefuse to call this love
\nthen they have never seen
\nyou when you’re falling off<\/p>\n

My Luck<\/h3>\n

Daniel Crocker<\/a><\/em>, July 2009<\/a><\/h5>\n

There are so many
\nbeautiful people
\nin the world
\nthat it sometimes
\nmakes your heart
\ncry stop<\/p>\n

but not a one of them
\nis at the Wal-Mart
\nin Deslodge, Missouri
\nat three
\nin the morning.<\/p>\n

Daniel Crocker is the author of two collections of poetry (People Everyday and Other Poems and Long Live the 2 of Spades) as well as a collection of short stories (Do Not Look Directly Into Me) and a novel (The Cornstalk Man) and several very out of print chapbooks. He is currently a student in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. In the mornings he practices his karate moves on unsuspecting pigeons. He’s also the editor of Trailer Park Quarterly.<\/p>\n

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