6/23/13

I’m not going to piss in anyone’s pocket, I won’t piss out this fire either


grown in furrows
patterns of blazing hills
our squint-eyes slice the sky
a seasonal dance
a Janus-glance

I’m not saying we’re prophets
but we hear the rhythms
and we’ll help you through the doorframe
not with kerosene and swaddling
nor torches and babies

we’re children of the fire, made of it
—who said that?
something in the underbrush:
     orphaned skunks in a hollow
     broken toys
     oscularies waiting

for aeration
something violent to mix them
with another, shall I pass through
or lie
in wait for my destroyer? what is
my substance? liquid or air?
errr  errring  every day
taking the dare, pissing
in the men’s urinal at church
looking for a rite that might
right you that might
upright you that mite:
you, me for example
under a golden sky

everybody kissed everybody’s hands




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