<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Cracks</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;"><b></b><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">You have seen them all your life</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">don’t say you haven’t — cloud</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">or concrete grey sliced by black.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Nothing comes back from these cracks</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">not aggie marbles, wedding rings or faith.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">The mind sends feelers into them</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">through standing waters and finds no bottom.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Cracks open promises from your earliest days.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">The shadows in your parents’ eyes that</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">shrank to shrugs, to apologies.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Cracks open at night </div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">and you flap down the hall in your footsy jammies</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">only to be told not to imagine things</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">but you wonder, <i>how deep is the dark?</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Sooner or later cracks come for everyone.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Which till then we step over carelessly,</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">thinking it is someone else’s business,</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">thinking destruction is scenery.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Cracks in the system</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">that grind us to powder</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Cracks in the Constitution, made</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">from wedges pounded in.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Cracks split our plans</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">and we fall into a different life</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">and don’t return.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Bruce Moody</div></div></body></html>