Fashioned
I have been made
and fashioned out of old
drapes and spit and polish,
out of daddy’s booth leather
and the stuff at the bottom
of whiskey glasses after a
long evening
I have been made from the
matter on the bottom of boots
mingled with the substance
of heaven
I have been made.
Russ Cope is a writer living in Virginia with four dogs who may turn on him at any given moment.