Broken
by Michael Dylan Welch, Randy Brooks, and
Brett Bodemer This rengay appeared in 2002 on the Millikin University website, with commentary by Heather Aymer, but appears there without a title and without a publication credit. I’ve lost track of where this rengay might have been published, if at all. If published, it might have had a different title. The first three verses were written on 22 November 1998 at the San Damiano Retreat Center in Danville, California, where we also wrote “The Bowl He Holds.” The remaining three verses were written by email in March of 1999 and later. hoeing the garden— a dried frog broken in two Michael string beans snapped Randy axe blow cleaves the log halves rocking Brett splitting at my touch dry mussel shells Michael cracked glass over the photo her lips parting to speak in my mind Randy an eye to each current egret on the sandbar Brett |