"Piano En Cendres" by NomNomBurgerZ.
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YOU'RE SCARING ME
—a collection of poems
by Dalton Day
Scale
I wish I would have
stuck with the
piano
especially since
it’s on
fire now
let’s climb
inside we are
moths
we are dying
we are
confused
we are
disappearing through
love
only to
appear again
man
I wish I could play
you something
worth l
listening to
Crow Boatin’
after a drawing by Anis Mojgani
we are in a boat
I am a crow
or I am a boy
with a crow head
& you are you
& you are
amazing like trees
are amazing &
we are in a boat
everyone else is
somewhere else
maybe dead
maybe just in
other boats with
other amazing
people but none
as amazing as
you are
we aren’t even
going anywhere
you are just
looking at you
in the skewed
& amazing
reflection in my
murderous eyes
Hole
I am twelve years old
& dig ging
a hole.
Mom assumes I
am going to plant a tree
& it will grow so big
& when she is old she
can sit beneath it.
But I am not planting
a tree. I am dig ging
a hole.
The sun is on my
back like a horse-fly
& this is astonishing.
I am older than when
I started dig ging
the hole.
Mom is such a good mom.
Dalton Day is an editor for FreezeRay Poetry. His poems have appeared in Hypothetical, Former People, and Rufous City Review, among others. He can be found at myshoesuntied.tumblr.com and on Twitter @lilghosthands.
