Deja Vu
[for michael]
bricks knots shards in my chest
i stagger search then knock
bearing garland of weeklies wafers & daisies
so soon at this entrance again
waving he barely whispers
i too can’t breathe
Notes:
This poem is part of “Déjà Vu: A Folio on Assotto Saint.” You can read the rest of the portfolio in the May 2023 issue. All poems and essays in the portfolio are from Sacred Spells: Collected Works by Assotto Saint (Nightboat Books, 2023). Reprinted with permission of Nightboat Books.
Source: Poetry (May 2023)