Just Beyond Reason

Poems by Patrick Brancaccio

For Ruth

 
  This goes to pot, that not Edward Taylor

Išve got ya, bastard
by the foot ­
scream, scratch go ahead ­
Išm sinkin in.
Therešs time to chew
therešs time ­
time to bite
time to swallow
time to fight
and bite again
­ the picturešs clear:
I know youšre snapping
after me
me hide sidestep run?
One of us has got to go.
Išve chosen you.

So Išll just sit here
with this foot
and wait until your
heart gives out
then slice it
dice it
into pot.