eaeasy

easy to say your laundered name when you forget it

easy to cross the street when the sky empties its eyes

easy to climb the steps when the car's on fire

easy to fire the gun when the lake rises to your face

easy to comb your arm when the window breaks

easy to break a leg when lunch walks in your mouth

easy to dry a log in the attic covered with ants

easy to tear your shirt when the trees are boiled for soup

easy to paint a photo and bury the mirrored frame

easy to drip and cough when the shadow returns

easy to grind the faucet when the fridge lights up like a torch

easy to blow your nose and number the rings you've lost

easy to think the mattress where your dream forgets its socks

easy to count the sky where the aspirin sleeps

easy to take it easy when the phone stops ringing in the room next door