Accomplice | Tom Versteeg

You're barely down off the red ball
and somebody says here
help me shake open
this valise full of bones.
The handle against you fingers
is so smooth
and so cool, but what you'll stare at
when your eyes close even years hence
is the way each femur glowed
like the nightstick of a cop
from the land of the dead.


Taken from the 2008 issue of The Wire Harp.