Autopsy of the Soul

 

Linking with Shay's Word GardenWord List # 8 (Russell Edson)

It is in the silent pondering 

the kind poets always do

that life gets a deeper cut

powerful like a hatchet digs

an autopsy of the soul

for we the poets are vicarious

silent ghosts of opportunity

following you to the cellar door

just to see what you shall see

to feel the electric shock

and taste the loss of words unsaid

we long to pull years out of the clogged pipes 

of one man's memory

we wrap them with soft metaphors

and then clasp each one hard with tusks 

so no one else forgets

we give them to the world.