“Cutting Tracks” was recently awarded Third Prize in the Merrimack Public Library 2008 Poetry Contest. The Union Leader, a Manchester-based newspaper, included a version of the work in the Friday, April 25th Merrimack edition (and a really horrible photo of the poet!).
Cutting Tracks
Each of us
a rivulet
the one-night offspring of Poseidon
and a water nymph,
shaped from the soot and sod of cities
some get bent by heroin and car wrecks
then dumped near a pier at the old north shore
others flush the gills of carp in Kyoto gardens
or feed earth’s eternal talismans
icebergs and estuaries
either way,
archaeology cares little for our victories
our peccadillos
cares little from what direction we came
or went
Each of us simply goes
by greater force
cutting tracks.
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Special thanks to Tom Lyford of Dover-Foxcroft, Maine for his editorial guidance on this work.
