neither rite
nor art
can arrange a random arrival
to this moment
of diverse beautiful everyone here
go stop something horrible – chicken house mountains are the sea
full moon was an ice crystal halo
took half the mountain sky starting from center
no light is refracted at angles smaller than twentytwo degrees
rain for the dry ridges and valleys
low streams and rivers
unreliable but as certain
counting stars or wandering moon dogs
falling leaves just
eyes are the melting halo reflected
the rain is already in the dirt rocks trees leaves walking flying
hills are swells colored autumn leaves plankton rising to surface
mountains are billows
ridges are rollers
all the autumn leaves eyes burrowing walking flying the dappled sea
i ride on a fossil fuel ribbon thru
ocean of mountains swallow me
waves of mountains slowly subside
ripples of mountains into alluvial shore
on to ocean of water wanting mountains
one is the other the other is one
oceans and mountains
we are both love and nothing more
go stop something horrible – figuratively speaking literally dying
may the drumming in the basin penetrate the alluvium
and more
may the drumming nacotchtank heal the atmosphere
and more
may the drumming piscataway be the heart of the people
and more
may the drumming chocolate city
drumming
continue.
mr pinkham from the twelfth balcony
take a swan dive cliff style
open arms land as a phoenix near a beating drum,
mr america from the flag pole(s)
bars captured stars medieval castles
softly flutter down last flight,
ms haaland come out to the balcony
welcome your people
strong and magnificently dance their demands
consecrate action,
mr joe expect your self
your people have spoken are speaking
on to your horse out of the peaceful park
people versus fossil fuels literally dying
we can’t have both
go stop something horrible – american tracks dc wilmington credit chase
stunning glasssteel k-streetification
anacostia wetlands
sprawls backside
hqdrome of surveillance
sprawls backside into other centuries boom bust boom bust
slow dark tunnel
emerald city of fraught healing
military industrial relics operating caves
silted estuary rivermouths glorious sunrise into bunkered mustard gas
ceded susquehannock estuary leaving
krylon on concrete slow is smooth
empty ballfields groomed backyards trampolined sprawlamenity
gravel lots spare pipes parts machinery sprawlindustry
distribution warehouse doors and doors and doors sprawlmojo
sidetracked bombfuel on wheels sprawlblood
stretches woodedge corn hay field sprawlceding
refinery soaring landfill tips of delaware memorial bridge
washington
wilmington
bidington
oblivington
go stop something horrible – tiberius columbus fo fo fo ennui thankyou
on a hill where the tiber was swampoodle
nacotchtank
predawn moon the grace over capitol dome
synthetically bright light twentyfirst century tents
foregound in walks dry fountains
just where rolling steel ends
in a hall
manipulation of space
frigidarium tepidarium caldarium
arriving people from allover
arriving old black sun from long ago for burning
from daysaway uplifted now soaring swamps
people in
synthetically bright light twentyfirst century tents
are not so welcome in columbus circle
as they are by a mischief
predawn moon
meanwhile our minutes away patricia
cozy thankyou in gated urbia suburbia
quiet are our moments our fascist soul
do i pretend my ennui is anger
will be made to sever the ducts of old black sun
by sun just now
and oxygens stuck just now with old black sun
from the madcap wind and rain
some place needs be near an ocean
where life leaves with water
to find tell a randomly story
truth of love being lost forever
molten orange raining julius
bulletin to every some place
portentous pretentious lies
now collected inverted truth
human stories told so many ways
and every place spirit
come to visit in leaving
summon us to the mines
hot spur to ginger tea
teeth
what is
reflection of a city on river water
dancing for one’s
will rake for it
and nostrils
nostrils and teeth
not place
world of each second
every subjects soul
go stop something horrible – succession of uncomformfortable positions
legs cramped with metal wending thru baby racoon herds
arms twisted in swarming yellow finches
feet shuffling thru rollerderby of fossilfuelprofitcopbastards
headbackonground eyesclosed mostly hotsun bastardvideorollingclose santasunworkshop grindingtooltime
solidarity canine multitudes boxed rolling somewhere
zooperforming timewarp profitprisoners trapped
i was
cops are too stupid to figure out something better to do with their timeoonplanet
racist religion
genocide theft
enslavement
war economy
futureborrowed living
deceived
we are
capitalists and their captured are too greedy to figure out something better to do with their timeoonplanet
milky way
mountain vale
low fog in patches
leaving out
meetings petitions pleadings callingout shuttingdown
faced
we will
revolution and mass people rising will save timeonplanet
go stop something horrible – grandbeautiful baby napping
with michael and mary on a rock in a stream near cepowig
so called saltpeter sulfur and charcoal
both big and little in this short story
for count of fifty curled face down
twelve hundred thirty five days post fetus
with michael and mary on a rock in a stream near cepowig
part of the rock briefly
come from mink blue heron rainbow trout mother downy woodpecker
somewhere between pretending newborn held needing
and wanting to ride warrior on a great ball in space
the young child could have been the rock
as the gunpowder fell softly around
no better perspective than the skin of the dark gray rock
as the gunpowder falls softly around
pause in sorting the so many reasons why
same why different reasons
same reasons said differently why
as the gunpowder falls softly around
their why some future only theirs
with michael and mary on a rock in a stream near cepowig
for just a moment then
floating through mink blue heron rainbow trout mother downy woodpecker
with the gunpowder softly around
further east and south
a smaller sister stream
on an outcrop from deep below
where turtle plays possum or sleeps like she was washed up in a flood
crickets swim across the stream at the swimming hole
the whys resolve into dust scattered around
for all moments forty five months ago for ever now on
grandbeautiful babys sister mother
not napping but with michael and mary around a stream near cepowig
perfect ruckus the falling little gunpowder
until the great ocean is grandbeautiful baby