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Nachtmusik
~ Porte D'entrée ~
Wess Mongo Jolley
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Wess Mongo Jolley
That Meter of Air
Peel it back and let it slide wetly to the ground revealing that tender meat that
raw and aching red meat in the cool air with fever soft rains washing it clean
of infection
Let the old skin the rotting flesh slough off and spread wetly in the dark earth where
the soldiers of the soil feast upon it and make it clean and light and weightless
rising up
Leave behind that anger and pain that encrustation of lies and assumptions and
find joy in that meter of air you have never trod and that next meter and
the next
The rushing air chaps raw and tender skin until new skin can grow there a healthier
skin and one that pulls you skyward above the trees where you wonder what you
left behind
So long ago
Wess Mongo Jolley is a poet and poetry promoter living in Vermont. He is Founder and Executive Director of the Performance Poetry Preservation Project (http://poetrypreservation.org), and is most well known for hosting the IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel podcast (http://performancepoetry.indiefeed.com) for more than ten years. As a poet, his work has appeared in Off The Coast, PANK, The New Verse News, Danse Macabre, DM du Jour, The November 3rd Club, The Legendary, decomP, Dressing Room Poetry Journal, RFD, Warrior Poets, and in the Write Bloody Press book The Good Things About America. He lives on a ten acre parcel in rural Vermont with his partner, various members of his clan, a failing vegetable garden, and an unidentified monster that has been known to chase visitors out of the woods if they dare to venture too far from the light. He is an urban poet, trapped in a rural body. He can be found on the internet at http://wessmongojolley.com, and at mongo@wessmongojolley.com