Violence and Other Acts of Pastry
Written by: Miller Vaults
Consider how words stumble
In the shrill blank of snow blindness
Hesitate
Their
Meanings
Llike seconds before radar sweeps
Like a downtown uprising not happening
This scraping of the sky is
A scar that can be passed
Down from the sun
Consider how florid verse
Lends dignity to subject matter
Anticipate
Its
Anti-thesis
Like money basket jingle bells
Like the palaver of cadavers
Worming through the conduit
Of textbook logic and uncoiling
Where the top meets the bottom
Consider how language activates
The cavities of the psyche
Refill
Its
Values
Like air through an open wound
Like the whisper that is veiled in every scream
Then, dear, urge yourself to
Emerge on whatever wings will
Fly you the fastest way out of here