Kyla Houbolt
Not Yet—A Whimsical Meditation on Death
and here I am
saying thank you to Tuesday
praising its shapely dailiness,
and admiring the doors, telling them hello
and goodbye and you've been
just lovely, so open and shut
and then how beautiful is this walking --
oh we must tell it so, how variously
stumbling and graceful, how tripping,
how halting, how purposed foot by foot
by foot, and oh the toes. Ah! Have you ever
thought of anything so marvelous, and
the fact that most of us have ten of them!
This, this is the splendor I mean
when I say we cannot burn it down
not yet, we have not huddled
joyous in tents, not
sung all the songs
we have not been homeless
in all possible towns
we have not cried enough
over the beached and parched
we have not lain down
under all the stars
and we have
not yet kissed,
you and I.
(Thanks to Jordan Davis for the phrase “a whimsical meditation on death”, used with his permission)
saying thank you to Tuesday
praising its shapely dailiness,
and admiring the doors, telling them hello
and goodbye and you've been
just lovely, so open and shut
and then how beautiful is this walking --
oh we must tell it so, how variously
stumbling and graceful, how tripping,
how halting, how purposed foot by foot
by foot, and oh the toes. Ah! Have you ever
thought of anything so marvelous, and
the fact that most of us have ten of them!
This, this is the splendor I mean
when I say we cannot burn it down
not yet, we have not huddled
joyous in tents, not
sung all the songs
we have not been homeless
in all possible towns
we have not cried enough
over the beached and parched
we have not lain down
under all the stars
and we have
not yet kissed,
you and I.
(Thanks to Jordan Davis for the phrase “a whimsical meditation on death”, used with his permission)
Biography
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Kyla Houbolt writes, mostly poetry, though she is old enough to know better. She is a 2019 Best of the Net nominee. Some of her work can be found in Mojave He[art] Journal, Burning House/The Arsonista, Neologism Poetry, and elsewhere. Most of her work is linked in her Linktree, here: @luaz_poet | Linktree and you can find her on Twitter @luaz_poet.
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