Simple Twilight

Our white dresses show through

the simple twilight

Darkness perforated

Father is a fragment

a fractal of religion,

and a lesson unfolding.

He’s fallen into

the only thing we talk about.

The practical things fall

victim to absurdity

and why care much

about the faint faces

on the window of a night train. 

You scream delicious

with bags of decadence

dripping a condition of resident nectar.

Someone mingled with high air might understand

the pastiche quilt of sameness—

like midwestern visions of the land

without a pony

a project of honesty upon accessory—

an endless reference, controlling comets

And you are another

gentle singular, solo facsimile

wrapped in a blue tarpaulin, undying ocean.

You suffocate in shine, miss a smile,

creased in the horizon at a sunrise-silhouetted bridge

a generous view, a stately reply

a drawn growth, mapped network of marrow and steel

suspended by seed and steam. I was wasted on me

contrived of brick. A sequined eye on the sail of astonished clouds

unable to blink a mistake. 

Lastly, a Limitation

Soft concentration
thunders inside
siren metal tinkle

i thought lovely
the Goddess of Speech
broken conflict at risk

i insist on a single
weather balloon
satellite lost we--
abandoned thick floatation
expanding outside
stratosphering wicker echo

i thought heavenly
seven times once
an owl echoing in the wood
twice dragon eyes
three imaginary boys
four and so forth

we garden pentacles
with cups of buckles shekels
of safety oil and wheat in the night
now nine and spins a tempest
an endless twisted
exhale into evolutionary faith
a sword of choice and fate will fasten  

Eighty-Sixed

Year of the Rabbit
rains without repair.
He wears a red jumper
and plays soccer over the river.

With a splash, I see a flash
of past on the dusty hare.
Children play cards in the black grass
A concrete impression survives the blast
Centuries swell
a countenance rare.

Near Earth Trojan

A pocket nova sits in a brilliant belt of emptiness
I need a lighthouse barometer to open that window
we mine colors from asteroids
carbon kisses, stone blossoms, iron strings, threaded water and symbol
a bright chalice of clouds circle ivy-like
and frame this story like a cube of cold becoming why 

Fold Here

Dig us
out of ourselves
Holes and hills
He and she

Karen, Kyle and Kennedy
Happen to be here one day
Happen to dig
Their bodies from hive wax
And shale cracks

I was alcohol once
I was clear

Ready Means Happy

Telling darling
please sincere
comic
seams to join
a glimpse
tales of a fetish near
arrested
incantation
ready for surreal
the struggle in a closet
time it will reveal

The Future is Space

We are on a white island born from mountains that emerged from the ocean floor and frozen slightly.
We drive to high places in cars that are never really cars; they are more like skateboards.
The snow is so high that I feel it on my chest. People have pitched their tents where it was infinitely arresting--endless sky and horizon. I could spend the rest of my life here.

So many people, whom I do not know, populate this place and they are my kin--white and brown. Something is happening--a build up of years, of scars culminating on this snow-settled tropical island.

In the late afternoon, I sit in my home which is a rundown trailer situation. Bits of wall and siding fall, but I have no shame in my poverty. It is only shelter. A couple appears. I do not know the man, but A redheaded woman accompanies him. She has been dead for some time. She is very friendly and wants to spend time with me because she regrets that she didn't when she was alive and I do too.

I call for my cousin because I do not want to miss the daylight and he arrives in two seconds. I am shocked at how impossible, yet absolute everything is and happens. I am unprepared for this. In the car, halfway down the snowy road, I jump out and slide down the snow in my slippers which continue to fall off without any cinderella grace.

I watch a sea of my family on an infinite horizon. They emerge from the doors of a church. My mother and her sister guide the mourning mass. I watch them head-on as they approach me.