OCCUPY THIS SPACE AS ENDANGERED POEMS RESURFACE
Occupy this space.
With endangered tools of impulse.
With fauna denied surfaces. Of red fur pastorals, and pined for
instinct. Of soul aligned with
animal. Feeling colors. A tee shirt that says: foxy. Coarse earth.
Expansion. Touching the
color. A trend for foxes but not their
facts. The thought tightening. Into a sparse wilderness. A pebble between the teeth. Site.
Of the endangered fox. A palpable
storm. Gesturing in the skin. A success marked by contrary responses.
Shards of a forest timeline. Echoplasm sutras: the wolf’s breath as
topology. Unfound Cycladic idols. Within sediment of lungs. Within a stream of the herb’s raw bone. Manic idols with their instruments. Gristle
of days. Ground to a powder of fine
hallucination. A jagged child in a
communion dress. Ancestors,
gnashing. Moving from one sky to
another. Morrigan, the wolf. Shreds of the dress. Purify.
The burning dress, buried. A
ceremony. Blue ash. The gathering and recognition. Animal of negative space. Marrow of status and vision. The paw that dug itself out.
An animal dark craving. In meditation. The owl, Lakshmi’s vehicle. Endangered.
Unknown hunger. Degrees. The crackle of TV stars. A criminal.
My push-ups. My Kelly Ripa
anxiety. My Kali and my aversions. Running with the dog. Cut off.
A car. A man in a Prius. I was yelling something. Grit and gristle. Kali coming out. The tree trimmer stopped to listen. The ex-gang member, petting my dog. Making baby sounds. Saying yes, yes. Golden teeth between the pebbles. Gnarled.
The earth will absorb even our deepest cuts.
Poring. A
sparrow in sage. Disabled origins. Deleted rotations. Tiger, sparrow and vulture. Undocumented.
Extinction of senses. Kin in
fauna decibels. Ephemeral blind
spots. A future repeating. Etheric edges. I cherry thick you. You dog my petting. Craving a dark. Anxiety is a tiger tooth shard. From beyond human surfaces. A tent of seeds. Pinned down.
In an animal lung. Penned. Pink
arrows. The color of it touching. The
sparrow. Lungs of sediment. A heart that
never stops itching.
The color you can’t stop thinking about. The PBS nature show. Toucans in Peru will not come to those men
calling in little boats. Toucans, the
newest pet craze. Its bill is a
honeycomb of bone. Its bill of
orange. In little boats. Its. A
moment of capture. Tugging you
open. Arrowhead, a ceaseless shape. An outline of a season. A nametag for each bird. This is a potential memory.