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Adam Clay
Self-Portrait with House Slippers and Tap Water
—after Jay Hopler
1.
In bed—a rose thorn
in my finger. A celebration
of the day was all I turned out to be.
2.
Maybe disappearing is what I meant.
A lover’s hair clogging the drain—
maybe disappearing is what I meant?
3.
The beginning of a beautiful season!
4.
Even if what they say—pain exists
to magnify love—
were true,
you wouldn’t change your hum
to accommodate loneliness.
5.
O dog, O dog, can I understand hunger
for a moment
through your mind?
What would heaven be
if you couldn’t manage abstractions?
6.
Or if you could?
7.
Headlights for a reading lamp—
The beginning of a beautiful season—
8.
I am washing the sand,
I am washing each grain of sand.
From A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World - Milkweed Editions, 2012