Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems
By Tom Hennen and Jim Harrison
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Darkness Sticks to Everything - Tom Hennen
from THE HERON WITH NO BUSINESS SENSE
(1974)
Home Place
The old house went down the basement stairs
And didn’t come back up.
The people
The cows
The sheep
The pigs and the chickens
Have disappeared through a great hole
In the landscape.
Minneapolis
Blackened trees
Limbless from industrial accidents
Huddle on the outskirts of the city.
The swamp has become a supermarket overnight.
A heron with no business sense
Vanishes.
The hungry man from the woods
Feeds on loose change
Like a parking meter.
At night
The smokestacks sink into the ground.
Underground the soot changes hands.
The night shift moves slowly
Emitting a dim light from their mole eyes.
An odor of small lakes
Survives in the clothing of insects.
Wife
My wife, you believe me
When I say I am a white stone
As silent as the moon.
You follow me,
The cold air cracking your lips
As you pardon me
For the winter.
You are with me when my courage
Is as moveable as furniture.
In a dark room
Or the woods
You calm me.
You are the wild grass I lament
In late spring.
Thunderstorm Coming
Outside the granary door
The spilled oats growing
By leaps
Banging against the feed pails I’m carrying.
Under the yardlight
I see
It’s really
Frogs and crickets
Passing each other in midair
Excitedly,
Almost shining.
As though they are the shape
Stars take
Close to earth.
Opening Day
First day of fishing season
The woods are crawling
With neurotic men.
Away from shore
At four dollars an hour
Boats are rocking
Empty.
Each shadow in the lake
A fisherman
Paralyzed,
Sinking
With tail and fins
And eyelids he cannot close.
Winter Twilight
It’s winter now, and almost night,
The grass of the earth is dead.
My window sill has been put on crooked
So that I am chilled by air
Dark and cold.
Outside I can see no one,
And the last of the sunlight is being hunted down
By something