And The World Keeps On Breaking Poem by Ben Partenay

bricks break, spread patterns around picture
frames, spider webs leading up, down, in

and the sidewalk breaks below, with pounds
of tip toe run walk feet, the glass breaks

to a window down the street outside, inside
a heart takes a last breath, and everything

breaks or breaks away from something, I hold
on, watch swallows dive from rooftops in their

mad love making fall, plummet towards
where everything ends in a stone breath goodbye, I

look up from cracked pavement, over soot rooftops
the night breaks into dawn