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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Matt Borczon's Dropped Quarter, Heaven-Neglected Animals, and Smiles Like Spiderwebs


Hope

Hope is
a prayer
said out
loud in
an empty
house
it's the
sound of
a quarter
dropped in
a Catholic
church
It's a
dog wearing
a muzzle
and a
gun without
bullets

it is
love with
no expectations
beyond the
way it
makes you
feel

right here
right now.

Animals have no souls

Beyond
the gates
of Eden
an elephant
sits alone
in a
room
a wolf
howls in
a shopping
mall
as crows
scatter across
neon lit
cities
we are
all just
dreams
waiting to
be born
just thoughts
unexplained
then lost
in the
glow of
everything

we are
all just
animals
who are
not allowed
in heaven

destined
to obey
a master
we never
asked for.


Lover

your
kiss
is
a
wolf's
howl

an
ocean
wave


and
your
touch
is
a
spider's
web
big
enough
to
encase
me
like
a
mummy

smiling
into
the
face
of
death



Matthew Borczon is a nurse and Navy Corpsman from Erie Pa. He served in the busiest combat hospital in Afghanistan from 2010-2011; he writes about his experiences on Camp Bastion and about the difficulties he has had since coming home. 

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