INTERIOR WEATHER
I followed the rain’s blushing bullets through to the back
and there the light snapped gray shards over every single thing
these are the shards I was trying to talk about when talking still made sense.
The climate is collapsing, whispers the anemone to the phone cords of mid-century.
I watched the factory mass produce tiny charms of these phones, suitable for necklaces
in all weather forecasts, a plastic pop reminder that we can, and do, and must commune.
The rain follows me through to the back behind the back. Back further
and still, some wires. And still some shards. Did you hear the recording of the icebergs
breaking. A frostbitten toe snaps off in a dismayed hand. Dismembered
on the commune. The rain is genetic, shards collapsing back as disembodied sound.
Among all the things left here to cherish, I cherish sound the most, dry lips parting
to take water in, then water rushing through, four billion years old, at least.
SIGHT
i have seen several ghosts when eric woke up once i don’t want to put my finger |
across time and spaces doors and floating quarters channeled messages or smoking in the doorway of the bed or just weight filling a small room laden with scent meat and cherry blossoms saying he had seen a ghost in the wound on his side |
PURPLE
Sometimes when you sink
your hands to earth
you touch shit. And if
your eyes are on the river
glued, the light ripples elementally.
The light is fire.
The ripples, air and water.
Hands salt licked and water washed.
Dust to shit to dust.
Dusk rippling in a dirty river,
an earthy river, that
thunder whips to lavender cream.