Breath & Britches



Between breaths and britches

what's to keep
next to us . . . .forever?
Neither fits, after a while.

Breath gives way to a needed new one,
(itself, kept but a moment).


Britches breach our breadth
and beg to be borrowed
by a baby brother.
Breath-taken-used-expelled
like a wayward carbonic wind
giving flora a needed dose of dioxide.

Each, ephemeral; each, extant.

04/25/2003

Posted on 04/25/2003
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