appealing

The Maynard
Fall 2020

Karen Kevorkian
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Why Not

Two days of knocked down nests
squirrels chrsshing in the dark
                a voice in the night saying what
the picnic shelter’s lightbulb star tenting
arms’ rise and fall
                strings pulling
                                acrid cigar smoke unallowed
but such a wet night
                who’d complain
black shining rain pools in light-absorbing small lakes
                what can I do I’m sober and I pray
light-bronzed palm fronds the rain solders to the pavement
                under packed L.A. clay so many buried bodies
                mammoths and dire wolves
freed from rock or shale coffins is it oh Jesu the big one
from a text on coastal geography the long awaited
and definitive tectonic subduction
                one shelf lifts another slides under disappearing
neatly as your please
                the Pacific’s busy ha has mapping and remapping
the glance of water