Just Beyond Reason

Poems by Patrick Brancaccio

For Ruth

 
  This goes to pot, that not Edward Taylor

I�ve got ya, bastard
by the foot �
scream, scratch go ahead �
I�m sinkin in.
There�s time to chew
there�s time �
time to bite
time to swallow
time to fight
and bite again
� the picture�s clear:
I know you�re snapping
after me
me hide sidestep run?
One of us has got to go.
I�ve chosen you.

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