Replacement for the Stick Gone over the Dam
By Ezra Dan Feldman
1.
Not moonlight, but airplanes.
They sing the whiskey
from flask to glass, cheap
and easy cascade.
2.
The telephone fiction: sounds
come down the wire
like an egg-yolk out of its shell.
How yellowly
it protests. An invitation to breakfast.
3.
Not sesame or ginger or burnt rye but the scent of hay
overpowering the kitchen
and some tries at grilled cheese.
The Swiss cavorting above the skillet
never falls.
4.
Not moonlight but gliders
a silent invasion:
men and silk and manure. Heavy
things descending like afternoons.
Shoes, laces undone,
tripping over their feet.
Ezra Dan Feldman received his MFA in poetry from Cornell University. His work has appeared in the Harvard Review.
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