Sorting
photographs on the floor into collages
Of fathers, brothers,
cousins, grandmothers, daughters
Doorbell rings
like a rope to the overboard
Deluge of
undulating flotsam bobbing
Can I use your
shower?
Interrogative of
the only woman with a key to home
Flag ascends the
pole
Pull in pull away,
codes and locks
Eye shadow like an
elixir of cardio pulmonary resuscitation
Electrifying
foyers into recollections of cattle brands
Baby done set
metal in the kiln with me
Magnetized in the
shrapnel and endorphins
Mesmerized to
cannibalize a lifetime into kernels of fear
About creationism,
evolution, layers only excavated during summer
Come artic winter
the desolation swath of white eviscerates
The room for the
missing links to find breathing as the tide
Freezes over as
the seal mermaid-dogs of yesterdays
Find no time to
pretend in the vacuums of silence
About progeny,
god, and literature
Posting quotes in priority
I am drawn to you
and see the cocaine sun rise and set in your lungs
Like carcinogens
bringing cancer in what we each believe eternity parades
To coats of
melanin, sexual genetic imprints, and books about shepherds
How long can I
live in an allegory?
Where
vulnerability parades like that wave passing over gaps in the ice
Swallowing the
drown of knowing not
How to be
Tiktaalik and walk up from the riverbed
But to know when I
lie in the stillness of night
Next to your body,
I am drawn in heart to hold, to be held
To offer this
love, to whisper as you wish
And forget the
origin of the species
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