November 13, 2006

  • Pal

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    pall1  [pawl] Pronunciation Key
    –noun
    1.a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb.
    2.a coffin.
    3.anything that covers, shrouds, or overspreads, esp. with darkness or gloom.

    ...

    Today in New England the pall, weather, and gloom was so dense

    you couldn't scrub it off with the surface of the Sun.

    It presses down, compressing, compressing. 

    You wonder, as you sit in your car eye ball to tail light,

    thankful that the brakes you just slammed on held,

    if the gravitational pull to the Hoda Civic Honda

    in front of you has increased just a bit.

    You wonder if the grey, now turned pitch black night

    has something to do with the mood you're in.

    The darkness is a black tar of liquid vinyl

    we slide along from ankle to thigh slowely

    expecting home if we can just get there.