AN INTERIM

No more shared strums for a while

or creeping up the gasoline path.

Passing through your manifest, we run

the exposure

of the particular still life not

so still.

May your indifference

be called

karuna: you have the heart

of a slaughtered deer.

The cultural moment has cabined

a shy land into the kindle again,

its tempo a new

vested grunge.

About Keith Higginbotham:

Keith Higginbotham lives in Columbia, SC. He is the author of Carrying the Air on a Stick (The Runaway Spoon Press) and Prosaic Suburban Commercial (Eratio Editions).