- 1
La Dispute - Such Small Hands
- 2
La Dispute - Woman (In Mirror)
- 3
La Dispute - King Park
- 4
La Dispute - Andria
- 5
La Dispute - Nobody, Not Even the Rain
- 6
La Dispute - I Dreamt Of A Room With All My Friends I Could Not Get In
- 7
La Dispute - A Letter
- 8
La Dispute - The Last Lost Continent
- 9
La Dispute - A Broken Jar
- 10
La Dispute - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
- 11
La Dispute - All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks
- 12
La Dispute - Bury Your Flames
- 13
La Dispute - Damaged Goods
- 14
La Dispute - Edward Benz, 27 Times
- 15
La Dispute - 35
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La Dispute - Edit Your Hometown
- 17
La Dispute - Environmental Catastrophe Film
- 18
La Dispute - Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
- 19
La Dispute - Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
- 20
La Dispute - New Storms For Older Lovers
- 21
La Dispute - Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-Sound
- 22
La Dispute - St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
- 23
La Dispute - Stay Happy There
- 24
La Dispute - Woman (Reading)
- 25
La Dispute - A Departure
- 26
La Dispute - A Poem
- 27
La Dispute - A Word Of Welcome And Of Warning
- 28
La Dispute - Eight
- 29
La Dispute - First Reactions After Falling Through the Ice
- 30
La Dispute - For Mayor in Splitsville
- 31
La Dispute - Four
- 32
La Dispute - Future Wars
- 33
La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi
- 34
La Dispute - I Shaved My Head
- 35
La Dispute - Landlord Calls The Sheriff In
- 36
La Dispute - Man With Hands And Ankles Bound
- 37
La Dispute - Nine
- 38
La Dispute - Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
- 39
La Dispute - Said the King To the River
- 40
La Dispute - Six
- 41
La Dispute - The Castle Builders
- 42
La Dispute - The Surgeon And The Scientist
- 43
La Dispute - Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
- 44
La Dispute - To Withstand The Force Of Storms
- 45
La Dispute - Twelve
- 46
La Dispute - Two
- 47
La Dispute - Untitled
- 48
La Dispute - Why It Scares Me
- 49
La Dispute - A
- 50
La Dispute - Anxiety Panorama
- 51
La Dispute - Autofiction detail
- 52
La Dispute - Eleven
- 53
La Dispute - End Times Sermon
- 54
La Dispute - Extraordinary Dinner Party
- 55
La Dispute - Fairmount
- 56
La Dispute - Five
- 57
La Dispute - Footsteps At The Pond
- 58
La Dispute - Fulton Street I
- 59
La Dispute - Fulton Street Ii
- 60
La Dispute - Harder Harmonies
- 61
La Dispute - He Is Here, He Is Not Afraid
- 62
La Dispute - How I Feel
- 63
La Dispute - I See Everything
- 64
La Dispute - In Northern Michigan
- 65
La Dispute - Last Blues
- 66
La Dispute - No One Was Driving The Car
- 67
La Dispute - Objects In Space
- 68
La Dispute - One
- 69
La Dispute - Only Everything Below
- 70
La Dispute - Rhodonite And Grief
- 71
La Dispute - Safer in the Forest / Love Song for Poor Michigan
- 72
La Dispute - Saturation Diver
- 73
La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
- 74
La Dispute - See You In Vancouver
- 75
La Dispute - Self-Portrait Backwards
- 76
La Dispute - Seven
- 77
La Dispute - Shall Never Lose It's Power
- 78
La Dispute - Steve
- 79
La Dispute - Sunday Morning, At a Funeral
- 80
La Dispute - Ten
- 81
La Dispute - The Child We Lost
- 82
La Dispute - The Field
- 83
La Dispute - There You Are (Hiding Place)
- 84
La Dispute - Thirteen
- 85
La Dispute - Three
- 86
La Dispute - Top-Sellers Banquet
- 87
La Dispute - Twas The Night Before Christmas
- 88
La Dispute - View From Our Bedroom Window
- 89
La Dispute - You And I In Unison
- 90
La Dispute - You Ascendant
35
La Dispute
Slowing down as they go through a lane shift
Wires snap
Concrete gives
Metal twisting and
Everything tumbling
At the end of the work day
Stuck in traffic don’t feel when the road sways
Underneath
Concrete gives
Metal twisting and
Everything tumbling
To their partners and kids
Don’t suspect anything till the bridge splits
Wires snap
Concrete gives
Metal twisting and
Everything tumbling
Down
Where I sat I saw brake lights flash
And I pictured them: all the people, their faces in free fall, the water beneath
I pushed my palms against the table hard to see if it hurt
Were it glass would I have shattered it?
Could I battle every impulse to panic and then win
Swim out through the metal twisting upward like a sculpture
Or some terrible beast?
People trapped in their cars
Put both feet on the glass and then kick hard
Water pours in
Seatbelts twist
River flowing and
Everything going down
People under the water line
Workers sift through the wreckage of it find
Seatbelts stuck
Water fills up
River flowing and
Everything going downstream
On the dining room wall I watched it
Play in the reflection of the television
The reversal in the mirror hung I could see it all
How the dust clouds gather color as they billow out
Shades change shifting in the night
From the lights atop an ambulance
Like a firework’s flash then that otherworldly glow
In the smoke thrown in the aftermath blows
Almost frozen for a moment there
I could see it all
Every
Dust cloud
Shattered glass
Billow out
On the TV
Wires snap and the
Concrete gives
Metal twists up and onward
I can see it all
Every
Dust cloud
Shattered glass
Billow out
On the TV
Wires snap and the
Concrete gives in
Metal twists up and onward I watch
And I can see it all
All the wreckage
All the cars piled
In the river and
The rail yard
Metal twists
Wires snap
Concrete blocks split
Dangle from tie rods
And metal twists up
Wires sway
When a breeze blows
In the distant
Sirens glow
I can see it all
Where they look for survivors
Searchlights float
Change the color of smoke clouds
And shadows still fall
People under the water
People trapped in their cars kick and try to get out
People still with their seat belts on
Pets they had in the back and
Car seats
And I watch it on TV lying down here
On the floor in the dining room reversed in the mirror
Where I know I’m not dreaming now
But I know I’ve been sleeping
I just don’t know since when
I only know that it’s light outside
I only know that the rent is still late
When did they find out the concrete gave?
When did they learn that the wires snapped?
