absorbent heart
your values aren’t right
for this age
or memory
color line. globes
of the Sea
survive revelation
as the Moon reflects
its own interior
revolver. I live
as a condemned
callused body
under salt water sand, far from your destructions. where are
the people of the lost (shut out the hate)
arc, in a service (love so remote)
to more water? worn
eclipse of a human
emergence, foils of the barricade
a face speaks
from isomorphic ferns
lines of sacrifice
burn the god of a naked mammal
I am the Loon
“the silence of our
beautiful consciousness”
“in love with everything
you make it impossible to be myself in this
place. where can I go?” – Baraka
attentive score
for the core
of death: black, red, and white as I wake
an expansive heart
absorbs all the evil
a veil of the world
and cancels
the Loon’s empty
submergence
for more of the deep
currents of the light’s
darkest refuge. I am the Loon
I hunt with blood in my eyes
I wander in the morning
and float above
the wound fish of the spirits
Copyright Credit: Roberto Harrison, "absorbent heart" from Yaviza. Copyright © 2017 by Roberto Harrison. Reprinted by permission of Roberto Harrison.