Tuesday, April 15, 2008

The Afterlife of Insects


Idea of absence, hard and bright as 
Tiger's Eye in her pocket
She like it under the trees in winter.
Everything overhead, dead or  
Half dead     angle and arc

Heart on a shelf,   lovers in jars
Contemplative, 
lip chant and sing  tongue tied

The nightbirds sleep with wings ajar

This feeling, 
Is ordinary. Self perpetuating, elbow stacked
between earth and sky.
Like tired sisters who've dropped hands
Lover's with matching scars
or someones name    indecipherable now

The silence, of something come
And something gone away
A hand that needles and threads the night away
Above
The sky is a box and a glaze
Moon Vamp

Silence

Soul throated, bird song over water
And afternoon breaking away in pieces
Memories that mix and mis-match 
then settle 
around us like air

Beneath all that
this
afterlife of   i n s e c t s,
We are the lucky ones,

 flat    dream    light   
Myth    
      limb  

the shelved ones

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