8.25.15

HOLDING strongest bird

across my chest,

I take more

Spring’s wind

Construct a bed

Construct a boat

metal parts, metal pins, and bone

stapled skin

Some kind of freedom

lifts in wind

this in wind

We begin

We corrode

            learn to walk again

8.3.15

UNBURY treasure,     unlearn speech

            ask of redemption -

            ask of the sky –

                        brazen illusion.

We trusted in indifferent landscape

            and translucent back / bent

wings

Creatures of the tide

disorient gentle movement

remembering what arrival feels like

remembering to lie

            underneath the water

            across land, across sea,

            across sediment

A swift presentation

            of injury

            of pure turquoise

            of ragged skin

Your cool, captured absence –

I refuse.

I wait, too

I deny                         light veined leaves

We’ll feel our edges blur

our bodies split by the meridian.

8.2.15

I TURN ON               empty

The moon is missing

beyond the windows

between where we are and where we are going

The body has memory

The body has a threshold

a joke stuck in her throat

watch it rupture

multiply it’s meaning

A foreign film without translation

Who said that? She said what? He said what?

My mouth? His mouth? Your mouth?

Words work well oiled

skin as wallpaper

and despite everything

            the body remains                                      dangling from rafters

The rope inside us

the tree inside us

to stand naked I stood naked

to sleep;  to each; to rest in peace