As a House Got Dark

Robert E. Clifford

As the house got dark from
our minds
quiet as ever the walls had been
we brought a body to a little town
far from the south side of Chicago
we laid him under trees and grass
all my mother said was that if he
knew

he was laid to rest under the sun
and a hill with grass
he’d be rolling over in his grave looking
for
the first place to have a drink.

Robert E. Clifford

Robert Clifford, a former Avery Hopwood Award winner for poetry from the University of Michigan, lives in Oregon.


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