Richard Lopez
Butterfly Knife
Click and glint of steel
the blade bentcold and might
a moment
be measured but by its absencebalanced in the hand
it
would makethis
our arrival
behind the supermarket
rusted-out cars and tossed bottles of beer
"Poetry begins and ends with a rhyme." (D. Rudoy)
Richard Lopez
Butterfly Knife
Click and glint of steel
the blade bentcold and might
a moment
be measured but by its absencebalanced in the hand
it
would makethis
our arrival
behind the supermarket
rusted-out cars and tossed bottles of beer