21 August 2011

Kawabata's Bones


Now that Kawabata is his 
own moral, a handful of 
ashes held out for any one

of five fathers to call
daughter, and the waitress
they shared a body with

has amputated the conscious
warmth of her abortion, 
best to name him what

he called her story, 
all four pages of it--
God's Bones. Like 

envelopes of anyone's
likeness in cremation:
as soon as it's read

it arrives, soon as it's
mailed, written. 
Each fleck a person

and each person opened
a problem waving back

Yasunari. 

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