Dislocation

 

“The Vagaries of Luck” by Alejandro Montañez

 
old minds new things

incompatible concepts

change comes on like a train

sound and fury and speed

compose calculus of fear

the terrors of infirmity

facing new regimens

details unknown

unforeseeable therapies

incomplete panoplies

unrecognizable faces

peer out from the shadows

what spaces await

disobedient bones

to accommodate

badly turned plans

no grave will be made

in a north country forest

whose trees will have

since disappeared

like their very own

leaves of a season

the once cherished

rural aesthetic forsaken

by force of the flesh

the unkindness of time

will decide where and when

for new endings

the power to write them

transferred and invested in

vagaries given to chance