And Then, Home Again

from Miracle Strip by Matt Layne

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Music:
Ned Mudd
Satellite
from the album Buffalo T-Bone

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And Then, Home Again

The cows forgive us our trespasses
with their dark Buddha eyes

as we track through the warm wet
of pasture grass. There is no word

to distill the perfume that is bird,
that is bovine, that is earth and green,

that is flowering rot, that is manure.
I will name its shimmer, Holy Ghost.

I will sing its praise as fat bees I once feared
bump from clover to ragweed to goldenrod

and then, home again. The fox who played the role
of Lucifer in last night’s opera is this morning’s archangel:

fur shining like a Sunday morning portrait of Jesus
as bullfrogs thrum Sacred Harp hymns.

And yes, it is spring, and the cows are brown
and white with a smattering of crow shades

all gathered in a lowing circle of prayer;
and I say, intercessor, and you say, lamb.

And the strawberries you picked
are warm and ripe and not too sweet.

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from Miracle Strip, released August 31, 2022
Music:
Ned Mudd
Satellite
from the album Buffalo T-Bone

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Matt Layne Birmingham, Alabama

Poet, librarian, raconteur; Matt Layne has been poking hornet's nests and looking under rocks since he was knee-high to a peanut peg.
I reckon you oughta check him out.