Cameron Keller Scott
Ars Percentages Your absence has made my life full of absence. Your lack, my lack. A week after you are gone ninety nine percent of my body can reconstruct you as real. The toilet seat has remained up seventy five percent of all the hours of each day to remind me you are not coming back. Music plays to cut the silence. I wanted to rock gently to sleep this broken hearted fool who tries too hard at love. Whose only lesson has become all lovers eventually leave. A month. A year. I’m eighty percent sure intuition is thirty eight point five percent proof. Strong enough to row a boat the wrong direction. On what sea? The sea of heartbreak. On what night? Every single night of the year. Who wants to grow old with a poet? The world grows tired of us, that we might break from its dream, reveal too often the dream itself. Who wants to be with someone so mad? I am fifty percent sure I do. To stand so close to the edge. To feel the breath of the universe strip us atom by atom, truth by truth. >
Cameron Keller Scott graduated from the University of Arizona with an MFA in poetry. Most recently he has worked for Chiloquin Visions in Progress and Fishtrap as a writer in residence, as well as helping to implement Fishtrap Story Lab (www.fishtrap.org). His freelance work has appeared in High Country News, The Drake, The Flyfish Journal, and The Ski Journal and he currently writes an outdoor column called Steelhead Nation for the La Grande Observer. He is also the author of The Book of Ocho and an editor for A Democracy of Poets, a finalist in the Colorado Book Awards.
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