Elope!
       

Sky's upper limit is mind
as this trailer crowds with shapes
stolen from my sister's house.

Clouds hesitate over hills,
sirens diffuse into the red haze
where a tugboat drags the afternoon north.

I'm a canceled stamp.
You're the carpenter of an orphanage.
She's an out-of-order sign.

It's hard to believe in Canada
with so little evidence.
Juniper wick. Wisteria.

Are you with me?
I write bad checks to memory.
You negotiate the release of the unconscious.

He wakes up in a contagion
of envelopes.
She filibusters her own wedding

until wheat overcomes
the windows.
I chirr like a cricket of the field.

That's our signal.

Copyright © 2010 Chad Sweeney All rights reserved
from Parable of Hide and Seek
Alice James Books
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission