Birth

expelled from the body

like donuts

like trees

head

face

shoulders

hair

eyes going: what what

body: still healing

other bodies: insensate
insatiable

Buried

what was buried:

bone shards

nail fragments

bits of meat on bone

nothing does everything

unmoored time/space

Poetry

I asked poetry: what are you
and it slapped me in the face.

Great mounds of grass surrounded us.
Soap spilled on the counter.

What do you want from me
Who invited you here
What house do you belong to

Shimmy

Do you come here often
Do you shimmy in darkness

Do you feed them

cover them
style them

in underbrush
in toadstools
in the birds’

blind beaks behind the toolshed.

Language

Corpses bleed on the roof.
Her hands meet in silence.

Crowds cheer
onions bloom

her battery dies
his hand touches her neck.

A faucet overflows.
A plane moves on the tarmac.

We shuffle into the cabin
a child’s head against window.

Midden upon midden below us
evidence of waste & human condition.

A whale is on the beach.
A crab reaches its destiny.

Two dead seals on the sand — can you see this?
What language do you speak?

Floorboards

I need a light I need a sentence.
Without sentience the hammer grows.

Worms grow in my sight
one leading to another.

They feed as they mate.
Even a dog understands this.

Light underneath the floorboards:
the mark of invasion

the hand aloof
the eye avoidant.