Zachary Kluckman – Moonlit Effigies

Moonlit Effigies Once we weighed                               all the scarecrows from our father’s              fields.     I don’t remember                                                         what we were trying to prove, but we counted              ourselves lucky. To know the full sky without                               a fear for the heaviness of our bodies.              To run.     Legs stretching                                                         like the dying light of day.              Fish still in the ponds. […]