Spell for Safe Passage
for you who heard useless
through honey trees in time of wasp and stalk
for you who raised surface we all mixed from hunger
generated off-color milk borne from chemical cousins
for train of mouths you who haven’t sat down
breathing a first bowl days waiting
for fog and spiced sky
I watch you weave
them bare grassy cane would not wash out no matter
tired body in shift and glitter how we found red
into whatever wore
me stolen a sheen
of milk memory saw
alone on the porch
to sleep and take up
a branch of that country
to allow maps of fire
our own fields of rain