does nothing, changes everything
I can’t imagine being
other than
a rough fire
perforated
by flesh & glass
“withdraw his ships”
the narrow fane
among the eucalyptus
add one stone
to the pile of stones
we call a cairn
that’s all it is now
that’s all
I ever wanted it to be
tremor-anthem,
opposable
under-garth
(as of thumbs)
*
corrects
for blood’s
loose breviary,
viral cleft
or
para-chantry
*
valiant field,
I ley
your
golden tongue
your soft son
your
leaping song
hung
with curfew
material signature
of the illegible
cover me, grasses
with your
reeds & tongues ~
diaries of the world
fog on the river kneels
& the eye
bent low & uncial
~
the empire of the flesh
you at the heart
of some rooted thing
dark chore,
dark mammalian eye
