you only look for it on the inside
that primordial lumbering
that common predator
that tactic of no other in the easy
ungainliness of morning light
disguised in the oldest device
sway of shadow and sun drench
some sudden deluge of judgement
words are a path through this outcropping
persimmon blood-rich against your teeth
the fold of dark hermeneutic
like white dandelion against fir
maybe this is all just language & trees
maybe this is all just vocal cords
humming through air like a jagged crack in glass
like that crack of sun against your face
again the fog settles in
we cannot sit waiting confused
& out of control chastened by angularity
green-tinted skyline hemmed in neon
you come last to bed as
this would-be thawing
glass morning dark as any finitude
scent of bay leaf
& fennel & basil
unsaturated instant coffee
unresisted reflection
some crumbs of bread left on the table
COME TO A WORLD
you only look for it on the inside
that primordial lumbering
that common predator
that tactic of no other in the easy
ungainliness of morning light
disguised in the oldest device
sway of shadow and sun drench
some sudden deluge of judgement
words are a path through this outcropping
persimmon blood-rich against your teeth
the fold of dark hermeneutic
like white dandelion against fir
maybe this is all just language & trees
maybe this is all just vocal cords
humming through air like a jagged crack in glass
like that crack of sun against your face
again the fog settles in
we cannot sit waiting confused
& out of control chastened by angularity
green-tinted skyline hemmed in neon
you come last to bed as
this would-be thawing
glass morning dark as any finitude
scent of bay leaf
& fennel & basil
unsaturated instant coffee
unresisted reflection
some crumbs of bread left on the table