The eternal return of Goldilocks
There's this thing inside that crawls and burrows
until it finds a safe place, a known crevice.
Like a ferret, slim and dandy
a creature of the innumerable present.
The world is wide and the mind is small
so that wherever you set foot
you feel the ache of the familiar.
There's always the now and what you are not
what can't be there, the long march home
and it's never what you remember.
The fire breathing, the chairs scraped around
the table and in the kitchen someone waiting
to call out your name as if a stranger.
Bare root
I dig until there are no more ancestors
and I have my feet in the unbearable mud
like stalks.
Tall and awkward
I rise.
There's a gratitude in loneliness.
A new vestment, a catechism without belief,
spiraling in and out of itself.
I crane, the omens of vintage on my back.
This has been recorded:
I fell from the great glaciers of Europe
and the dune-paths.
I found my Stalingrad along the wells of youth.
I did not sleep.
Nine spells nine I waited, until the past grew
fractured and sallow under my nails.
I dig until my hands are raw again
and blackened with dirt.
Around me the silence of bees
that brush off the sky like a dream.
These things are not alike #2
adam eve (unless taken from the rib, in which case...)
a destination a namesake, a match of skin
air from a stranger's mouth breathing
infinitude a string of children
how flowers amaze her the delicate dragonfly's wing
a beginning oftentimes by the sweat of your brow
a kiss a kiss
a brief spell of enlightenment the naming of all things consequential
the song of her eyes a blanket evening
fur & the thrill of mating the indolence of a clear blue sky, the complete absence of clouds
a victim a fall
root & branch & field of dreams a home, preferably of
your own 2 hands
the moon whispering habit a son a daughter a sacrifice
loss of things to say serenade & darkness' breach
the feeling of your own simple nonexistence
hand on your cheek,
simple nonexistence
an unforeseen pasture a resting place, a well, a side-effect
earth & lullaby a lifetime
