That Time I Was Walking, And It Was Beautiful
Brian Clifton (Missouri University, USA)
The long school years
to learn my tears are honey.
I’ve been wrong so many
times, but I can be wrong
again, playing in the snow.
I’ve locked the doors
and searched for patterns
on the floor.
There’s glitter
in honey, glitter in snow,
there are wet diamonds
that flow from a broken
finger. The gutter soaked
with them. Honey coats
the skipping record
and causes it to skip
a little more, a little more,
a little more. My exploration
into the years of alcoholism
and the fuck-fueled snow.
Brian Clifton lives in Kansas City, Missouri where he walks mostly everywhere he goes. He plays bass and is currently enrolled in the MFA program at UMKC.
