Tuesday poem #178 : Michael Cavuto : NO STARS

plucked a stem
right out with bare hands

(Just the leaves wilt in boiling water.)
                           & noticed
              a plant in similar
              decay

Two things with no energy to spare
                                     the dead

                                                       after hours
                                       waiting on dried beans
                                                                 a wild onion
                                              & not much else

Michael Cavuto is a poet recently moved back to Philadelphia from Toronto, and is a founding member of the pure sound collective Sex Panic! With Dale Smith and Hoa Nguyen he edits the Slow Poetry in America Newsletter.

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