13/30: Celestite

 

Celestite

 

The veinous interval

Sun splits the trees

The air becomes celestite

We are solvent

Finally

What now to do

but cook these skins

We won’t need them where we’re going

 

 

12/30: folly & carburetor

 

folly & carburetor

 

rap dogs of the sidewalk refrigerator

squeeze my carburetor

tire screech

ocean of car language

little voices from the hum

Saturday whining street music

we roll with it

a beam of folly and decay

skeletal longing

where are the roaring mouths & little feet

the spell of a dandelion whistling

rustle and rumble

each of us caught up

a splatter of constellations

 

 

10/30: sediment

 

the bottom sediments

if you let it

a whirlpool the normal tension

are we not living cells?

all the wild cultivars

and their babies

in a crystal sky-city

a whorl, a pith

a solitary action

We emancipate

 

 

9/30: the woods found within this body*

 

“the woods found within this body”

-from Half of What They Carried Flew Away,

 Andrea Rexilius*

 

my trust issues a clog

in my heart spell

small blisters

 

rainbow cuts

in the landscape

 

my leg undergrowths

spirochetes & chasms

having irregular hairs

 

in between breasts

my thunder belly

landslide

 

mortar, then –

the sticking nest of

desire for something

 

else not a marriage

not a lichen

though we did walk in

those woods

together for a time

 

All light melted

I was magma

Damaged tissue

Debriding

 

 

8/30: rose quartz

rose quartz

 

Aureole threshold

is totem

Three rosy smooth stones

 

Fibrous & generally stable in ultraviolet light

One is found or one finds oneself

 

Irradiation forms dusky hues

Rock crystal asterism

My terminal bud

 

In each hardness a prism or vein

A loathsome pustule

A bubblegum center

 

A dichroic future of bilateral symmetries

Our stars pulsing under the skin

 

 

7/30: In the Staff Break Room a Lone Foil Star Dances

 

In the Staff Break Room a Lone Foil Star Dances

 

There is no wind

no tremble

I sit here reeling

from life’s rapidity –

the days melt in a flurry

of job & family & email &

sex & tasks

how caught i am in this maelstrom 

as if to stay alive

This ocean

This paroxysm

of waves breaking

How we wash

over each other

is enough

 

 

6/30: synthetic skins

 

synthetic skins

 

dolphin embryo digitized forestry

reproductive animation

identifying calls & bone

teeth, roots, jaw, skull

 

This is the mouth under my body plan

This is the muscle of the water

 

digital animal sounds

television of the interior

pixelated whistling for blood

a pathology, a tincture

 

oh digitized meat war

we’re coming for you

 

 

3/30: chalcedony

 

chalcedony

the gentle subtlety of true light breaks

arrests then aggregates radiating

how the glow extends to us despite our faults

 

crystal life system your gap symmetry a balance of victories

moss agate, the nacreous imagine, stalactite, a petrified wood for lovers

how you hover as forms

in the interstices

 

warrior, queen

your magnanimity

a wonder seeking air

 

 

2/30: Aurostibite

 

Aurostibite

 

i’m not radioactive

there’s a horizon over my grimace

lead grey no gammas protuberant teeth

the sonogram catches my gravity

 

diploidal i’m a star symbol a fracture among the shimmer

my crystal system two Ty fighters on the wind

a metallic streak

 

Au get off my diaphaneity

What I lack in sulfur I make up in cell dimension

666 – mark of the beast

Good luck finding my cleavage