Savior
Evelyn Hampton
I hadn’t been letting everybody in
but then watching the chair spinning
last night I became a great sage.
I saw that a circle tapers off
into many ends and each of us
is one of them. Then the rug
moved about an inch too soon
and threw its motif gladly off.
When I try to think about what it means
I get the basketball lost. I carry around
four days of thoughts and on the fourth
day I am karate-chopped by a boy
named Savior. He is led by the steps of his house
to do whatever he wants.
They lead him into the forest and say,
Savior, you must chop! And so he must
chop, and chop, and chop
until the forest is the city
and Savior my only neighbor.
EVELYN HAMPTON lives in a neighborhood of Providence. Her website is Lisp Service.
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