we no longer need children /
tiny unsteady signposts /
pointing /
this way /
to the future /
that neon crackled and loured /
their voices sharpening /
pitch without colour /
pointed as ice picks /
necessary to puncture compacting prospect /
worried creations /
to distract from /
registering we are we now /
where the morrow has already passed quick hands
the birds are birdy /
see see key key /
pecking at fabric /
between me me /
and thee head /
cant he cant he cant he he /
tick touch clock /
for for for a clik /
reemeber that see /
pick past nock that /
lik heet o feet /
riskee tip of needee /
mebirdee make hole a home
all who are who stand up /
shave your heads on low ceiling /
each name is a count for the register /
lose the identification that keeps birthdays rolling /
take a stand charging the calves with stimulation /
every thing buzzes each day thee day /
what is held twists like a shopping bag /
by the neck in wind winding us all upwards /
take a clear stand as close as a professional shave /
lifting the skin up for a half-second /
before the razor draws a completed line /
how to shout along side alarm, alarm, all arm /
stretching the throat on fumes /
the warm fingers of waiting says so
fingernails are no match /
for the thick morning air /
blood is a lie /
explained songsingly at birth /
that joy has a cutting price slicing slowly/
taking decades to cleave the body in measured halves /
one for chewing gravel from the family driveway /
one for leaking bodily fluids towards the pacific drainage basin /
where tarantulas shake still /
those halves before us tear us /
towards their own rend /
hoping for the whole they first slept in /
in the dark /
listening to the full thump /
of the world outside
iron ore pellets /
slingshot perfect /
dust grey purple dots /
leaf birch tear /
flat evening water /
skip a cross /
full hands for miles /
across the kashabowie line /
rumbling off cars /
fisting for hundreds of miles /
animal knew better /
than to mouth /
children do not /
small us /
not designed to eat /
earth’s core
one little man’s moon /
hanging over boulevards and crescents /
tied sung to a grandmother’s hair /
handed down on the first birthday /
before candles melt and the alarms ring /
signaling the hazard’s been met /
amongst excited screeching /
and messy mouths staining furniture /
swing the moon out further /
until it breaks the emergency glass /
useful also to scare off strays /
swung in manic circles /
that whistle from the hair spinning /
splits a sensitive ear /
it’s what your grandmother heard /
every other day /
speeding through space /
at the century’s opening /
spreading across a shifting continent
blood on snow is striking /
drench of a falling stain /
webbed drops losing their /
richness in last night’s /
late winter fury /
linger on the sparkle popping /
in random patterns as the head shifts /
the contrast is so pronounced /
bodily drip red and blank inarguable whiteness /
a stinging focus struck pointedly /
tiny twist pulling a canvas down /
the depth of February’s nondescript /
only frames blood’s pinning release
dull nest /
cracked hair /
stroll over light bulbs /
maybe a sun /
on three stilts /
ready for calculations /
lighter than air for any lung /
run away from the meat tally /
we’ll never be in the black /
rings of scarlet flaring behind our necks /
our better angles /
for sharper shadows /
an afterburn glow /
winging through the howling planet rings /
out the in space /
lightlessness waiting for a human hand /
to arrange falling molecules /
in an ideal absence /
what will rub the toes raw /
in hell’s long tickle /
there laugh track strangles conversation /
consuming all oxygen in the most broken moments /
1 paying everything to an invisible audience /
whispering a tattoo of closing reviews
don’t die today /
let alone alone enough to crimson on the say /
gather round melting white to make snow /
old is old fearing say I know /
carry the child to the store in arms /
you know you and ask for quick alarms /
jump on stat for today’s sake /
enough steps walk over the heralded lake /
a commemorative plate to press a head /
love leads love stammering as said /
sleep is silent on this lent ground /
chatter curses in advance the inevitable sound /
blowing the tips of soft fingers /
good god knows better than to linger
wither I /
shrinking capsule in a great /
intestinal wash heaving /
across the concentrated space of this country /
my hand’s wave grows smaller /
hardly picking up the lid /
of a passing infant /
these hands break /
under the weight of a match /
no longer a son /
and none before me /
crawling towards the world’s lip /
better to be lost each day /
fingering for patterns of light /
than accounting for chair legs /
on the wake’s ballroom /
let’s hear it for the pill in the gut /
forgiving form for a spray /
across the universe’s territory /
pinching the noses of all /
the imagined gods /
lying in wait ’til spring /
is the last season