All of This Is to Say

the body pushes sutures

              to surface by isolating

and strangling the foreign material

              from blood and capillaries

sent to compost the stitch

              in the same way that

neon is a gas made visible

              by sealing away other gases

which is why neon is so popular

              in space and stars so fashionable

which is not exactly unlike the closets

              of queer people who clad

our starbodies with stars, avoiding solidity

              in neon capillaries which

when you think of  it has everything to do

              with monsters who became history

when Pliny the Elder wander’d around

              Caucasia, which was not a home

for white people but was a place before race

              became a wound devoured and sutured

or became a monster, which might be a geography

              of famine, entire continents of people

whose value is predicated on monstrosity

              which does not dissolve in the body

or flash with light angular as flaming

              but is used to light this planet with economy

rather than stars, in a persistent assimilation

              of who is worthy of saving

and all of  this is just to say that wounds

              wander bodies, ancestor to ancestor

which is why all of us hurt so much

              licking open our wounds