perhaps
over the next crest
in another dell
around the hedge end
we will find ourselves together
speaking of pain and sweat and hunger and michelangelo
in a human register
next steps falling natural
as we plan our survival
alone cojoined
in tropical light
the white
man
rode the burrow
from santiago hacia las sierra maestra
sobre el rio juragua
robo
hierro duro
de la tierra esponjos
on the semitropical marsh
tons of cold air exploded tons of molten iron
iron and carbon separating and rejoining
with blistered hands
charred faces
mangled arms
fractured skulls
into smooth hard slick steel
y en la selva humeda
on the broken tarmac
ruins
resignation
religion
immitation
dividing and conquering
secures meat when there is prey
opportunity when there is insecurity
obsolete technology applied with brute force
fission uncontrolled, with limited fuel.
swirling in patriological event horizon
we reset the physics
or disappear
sunwarmed
pink white yellow red orchidmesmerized
orange tea rose thymeinfused
smooth velvet pricklytouched
grovequiet
i am transported
to another place in time
only here and now
grains of wet alkaline aluminum iron magnesium
separately suspended and adrift
settling in bonded tetrahedral and octahedral sheets
attapulgite beidellite dickite halloysite illite kaolinite
montmorillonite nacrite nontronite saponite smectite sepiolite
layering in soils
plastic
molded tablets bricks tiles cups pots urns
distinct
sintered ceramic earthen porcelain stone
composite
your honor you are unbalanced
your unhinged brain dangling forward toppling over
oxygen deprived
filled with misconception
an inquisitor utterly lost
disgrace hangs all about you in long deep folds
raise the stick like a hero
hold it in both hands high and mighty
hurl it clattering across the square
decide and act neither one nor the other
but both in dynamo
brook brown and rainbow trout bass and carp
rise shimmering to hatches in deep pools riffles and fast flows
of mayflies caddisflies midges stoneflies
nymphs pupa duns spinners
to grasshoppers beetles ants cicadas crickets inchworms moths
poor fliers swarms
shrimp scuds sowbugs crayfish
leeches
minnows bullheads sculpins
snails craneflies dragonflies damselflies
in eleven cubic feet per second of coldwater
through fields of corn and wheat
cathedrals of eastern hardwood and deposits of salt petre
tasters of our royal cup
in every atom
of metal in rails ships machines wheels
brick stone in streets walls foundations
wood in chairs beds tables coffins
food
polluted air
treated water
with quarks letpons bosons
interacts a greed hate fear particle
emitting waves in uncertain half-life
running soars through gravity devouring oxygen surviving
a celebrating race of power motion space.
horses master time flying in balance
god herds blossoming into thunder.
shamans pretending to know and ride
gamblers fixating on unknowables
jobbers scrounging the sweat of others
necromancers killing with thyroxinelasixnitrogenpharmaceuticals–
set the gods free
