Olive Green
Mike DellaGioia
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I have your name But I've been terrified to use it If you could see me now You would be just as disillusioned Golden angles Tree-lined trails, dried pine needles You have my name Just at a different elevation I don't want to be seen when my organs are in danger Open, under We share deep tangled roots but up here Up here Up here I'm a stray branch Cut me from the tree Over a decade still no leaves Doubt is a heavy cloud I still carry mine around Blistered collarbone Still no sleep Quiet in the lobby Bursting at the seams in the streets Permissibly lonesome Can I really be the only one? The only one? I don't know which map you have But mine shows narrow saltwater streets And the parish hall on yours seems way too close to the beach Week by week they're uprooting all that we know And tossing it out into the ever-growing marsh weeds It's a shame nobody comes down here anymore But at least I still do For all of your greens and whites and pale yellows Water boils and sings in dissonant melodies That rattle the single-paned windows diagonal to where the outdated oven crackles and spits The glass bead eyes in your blackbear puppet come to life In a forest of the brown paneled hallway My father's footsteps before mine and yours before his I guess we never really know how it started just like we never really know how it ends This was a shade scattered cul-de-sac until the root system became a complicated burden And when I lose my footing that's when I start to worry That you'll become unmanageably ashamed If forced to return my name First I'll fall, then I'll drift, then I'll sink Deep, deep down, stuck in the mud-lined banks of the same swamp we tried to escape Until and unless some curious hands Uncover me like an old oxidized railroad tie We share a name We share a name We share a name But I'm terrified that's where it ends
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