Leaving Behind

November 2015 1 Open up for close out    soul-clothes    every- thing has to go    closing down time    call them all saints    souls    my own gone ones:  Andy    Marcia    Mary Alice Mary Anne     cloud of all    carried out 2 outside my window: locust, cloth of gold     on the ground: its yellow tabs   linden hearts   sweetgum stars like cut-outs from the same ... paper-napkin ghosts in a tree near the house where a year ago my friend — rust-colored chrysanthemums   rust-colored door 3 door to door the angel no the Lord passed or did not pass — the angel opened the prison door     doors to pass through, out or in:  our millions, more than any — in the other story the Lord said:to put a difference between 4 between one and another a gun:  at one end it’s a good gun because at the other’s a cell phone pill bottle toy gun nothing a Trayvon    Tamir    Dontre    Michael Laquan    Eric    Rekia    John:    call them out and the others, black and many 5 many thousand gone    no more auction block