From “Pink Waves”
6
was it hardly a wave
collimation dreams of narrowing waves
the consolidation of my particulate odds
sliding between dreamlight and the way it rolls off
she was elegylight and circumstance; she pitched her light away
and bid you love
previous utterance catches in the memory like death
closer to the range, the table, the unrepentant tongue
English utters a line for the dead
and then somebody is mouthing my kick
it’s haptic; it’s your normalized membrane
cantilevered muscles in the backyard of my body
extent that we need another resolution
atop a sharp pink hat, Emma Post just went away
some things don’t die so easy
i want the drifting organisms of the ongoing intermission
i want Amber DiPietra and Denise Leto’s waveforms to protect us from heavy waves
i want a decidedly animal resolution, J K Chukwu and Stacey Tran are here but they too will leave, others crowd in at the last minute
a higher concentration of my predicate silence is cause for a crash, that would be me
positioned at odds with myself
she was a function of x, her geometry projective; light while there is light which is now gone
the growing concept of her back
the formal struggle of a line on fire
who and where, why all of a sudden? Adam Golaski went away again
i have a very animal claim, a brick and mortar politics
yes we are erotic warm anemone
when the sun is saluted, all interventions are off
i think that some people just have no history of art
sediments and molecules burn up in the present moment
hip replacing humans
internal findings crawl back in the dirt and undulate out while you
cede your control
Source: Poetry (April 2022)