Markings Magazine Poetry Rachel Boast
Rachel Boast
Cabin Fever
When night and the key to the door
descend together to the bottom
of a bottle of Laphroaig,
have your good ear ready
until the firth is a salty chorale
of octaves, suggesting
rain mural, the moon‘s meadow,
or Collect for the day that never was
quite how you‘d hoped,
but better – beyond hope,
distilled from some deeper resource
of things as they are, just as they are;
Collect, also, for peace
in the faint hours that come
once the final decision to sleep
is made, then unmade,
then tossed aside, and so on;
and for aid against peril by way of saying
that, yes, water is holy desire
and good counsel, possesses a body
unlike other bodies,
neither singular nor plural –
and as you bed down with it
the light in the room tilts and begins to decant.
© Rachel Boast
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