Backsight
If you look through a dragon’s eye socket,
You see what she saw
Only backwards.
Weavers unweave tapestries.
Potters pull clay off the wheel.
Smiths’ bellows suck air from the fire.
Troy leaps up from the ground,
Spits the horse out of its front gate.
We are all pure again,
Unalloyed,
Elemental,
Free from all deception.
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This poem is from the chapbook What The World Offers by Daniel Rabuzzi (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/what-the-world-offers-by-daniel-rabuzzi/
Daniel A. Rabuzzi (www.danielarabuzzi.com) has been published in, among others,Crab Creek Review, Asimov’s, Harvard Review, New Letters, Shimmer, Goblin Fruit, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. Pushcart nominee. He lives in New York City with his artistic partner & spouse, the woodcarver Deborah A. Mills (www.deborahmillswoodcarving.com).
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