My Brother Boney (Sean)

Sean, also known as "Boney", graduated class of 99 from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Now he's a PhD candidate student at SUNY Stonybrook studying very fancy physics nonsense. Here's his web page: Sean Leckey.

My brother wrote this poem at some point during his undergrad years:

I was on the brink
of immortality
when I begin to sink
All away began to roll
While you are still upon the hill
My calls instead of heard are seen
like a highly refracted beam
color through a kaleidescope of leaves
faster than the same light
I could not see the trees from the branch that I sat upon
I was sunk.

I could not very well
see you walk away
laid thus low I swear:
I can not tell my right from my left
but if I could tell you:
the sky comes together, the stars meet
the sky falls friend earth receives
the sky flies, like a bird flying within itself
through its wings its wings push against its wings and
I see you in the stars on earth
higher than the same bird
I am flying.

And this one:

You, a paper mill, a bag of cheetos and a
The sun, a falling moon and words for a
A tree underneath which stood her then a
A brick, a trip, the son of a bitch threw a
A pain, a blame, my only eye fell on a
The sentence began and finished at the end of a
if only the damn and a cheese melt would be all a
the simple song couldn't reach a mood and so a
the fair and subtle girl suggested that I find a
You, a paper mill, a bag of cheetos and a