walk into a forest trembling gold silver yellow
see six thousand tons ringing breathing as one grain
taste pollen blooming ten thousand springs
walk forty thousand feet of dispersed light with each step
hear forty thousand engines working in whisper
smell eighty thousand sun orbits as one second
meaning has found you
an august early morning
in city brick asphalt soil grass and trees julyabsorbed
a red brown black toad poised unglazed as clay
on a knee of buddha turned away from his gaze
from high unseen rare untimely
a grey crane alights on buddhas head
a glorious globe unfolding in the sun
ball of medicine paper burning with color and flowering stigma
crane folds its wings in predatory prayer
toads beautiful heart beats faster and broken
buddha smiles
after eating an ant and lichen toad hops to arbor vitae
crane loosens and swallows a stone of clay and spirals away
buddha remains serene eroding
cast toad into the city and crane into the world
to share hunger
for wet muddy reeds and rice in unsplit unfused atoms of drenching rain
why do you animate me
cast me into space and time
from earth
still and lonely
some hands muscle neuron beauty
hold you
precisely positioned stress
randomly self-assembled
sailing in sun
launching out dark
feeding on rusted green leaves
steeling into bright colors
swarming frenzied flight of logic
upsurging communal pride
culturepleasure possibilitinomicnomicnomic
neighborhood queued carousel
beer beef gently rhythmic sailing beasts
perfume finishing apple with roasted shell
auburn hair soft curling in electric fingers
ah move like that
acronemone
bluefas
cupcrouch
drapdance
ettalyp
facefruil
girgrav
haroread
intevase
jazuar
kebas
larlan
marguemas
nulisq
odali
porofle
quefaz
reclis
seanu
torsum
uveil
watom
yelng
xresl
zuilqu
hoover’s hematemesis
vomited bubbling out windows
down crumblingmortar oxidizedaluminum moldyvinalwood
into buried earthlung springs
mccarthy’s melena
served mysterymeat
in soupkitchen with sugaredwater
largetracing arsenicleadbenzene
nixon’s necrosis
spreading comfortmutation.
wallace’s stent
scalpaling steelsword
excise resist reject from electricbody
canned oriole-two-matoes
engineered to deliver the power of eighty-seven tomatoes
encapsulated
transport in container-chains through china to mars
in custom gravity
switch spiral radio direct
vitamins ac trickle in synthetic genius
relieve future-loneliness
remind used to know
extruded
surrounding
infusing
blue becomes you
all of you
turrita marianne britannia
gleam of firstbeam
blood washing foul footsteps
conquer we must
awash in floodgates of wickedness and mischief
tea and toast and coffee
