joy rd

Blanket can be unthreaded and used as floss
or to tie back hair so it is out of their eyes. Blanket
is a splint, a towel, pillow. Blanket is quiet when nothing 
else is. Blanket is a noose, a blanket keeps out the cold.
Blanket will hang a man whose feet don't reach the floor. 
We gulp all the air to the count of thirty and we gulp 
some more. The neighbor knocking at his cell with no sense
of rhythm. Blanket
is a curfew. We keep eating air from twenty-nine
to thirty but he's so far down joy rd and
Deep summer morning
rolls its fog blanket up to his neck, where laurel tree is peppery
and crushed pennyroyal is sweet, where the wet
rocks can be blankets if you are unfocused enough and
we cover his blank face then call for an end.
Blanket is for resting, to keep out the cold.