Bridges:
In the realm of obligation, despair
Avenues down the moon glow.
Love mourns in death cults
and straw votes.
You’re Face, book, illuminated under
the deerskin, foretold
A migrant population
Eyeless in its hunger.
Parts of skin, separated colors blue deep
and rope tows, are what is left of
executions and sanitized television
mourning: outrage, revenge, depositions
of after the fact awareness
as if the war
hadn’t been broadcast
twenty four seven….
Churches:
Sunrise across America:
trapeze and transept,
peeking through the flat weather
with cold parabolas.
An invasion upon my surface tension
the dew and the itch lay again
over my red eyecoats
and heavens of character:
a soldier walking with an
uncertain synesthesia
upon an oblong radio,
inhaling the obligate lumps
of the low-armored type.
Sulfur feeling
dust legs
painting the shapes
a crescent moon
from a cloud of earth.
Graveyard paths:
There it is,
an epitaph,
A cross,
America, all set in
a desert
of memory,
prone
to the leaving moon.
Alone at the ocean, in the eel grass, healing:
Seagull bodies float weightless into the settled crater,
A Gaza-like sea foam hides
the excavators,
planting
the winter crop in coffin liners.
