The Heavy Sky Poem by Robert Rorabeck

Swallowed you body in echoes across the
Train tracks-
Went to school in the morning, across the baseball
Diamonds with pockets empty
And broken teeth:
There wasn’t even a rainbow, and in all of the
Canals sat the fattest reptiles,
All talking loud and obnoxiously, and smoking,
Smoking: had to look at those eyes,
Out beneath the slender bridges:
Slender as a wire: slender as a hair: had
To tightrope across those spaces- and look down
Into those eyes-
What were the reasons for those cold fires,
As I went to school with no one:
Without anyone, because you had made him
Cry-
As the blinded and dumbed angels tried
To leap up again through the cinders falling
Through the heavy sky.