Tuesday, July 19, 2011

hot skin no skin


1.

        The heat is needed
        So we can know our bodies

        Unfiltered hang of an arm
        I watch the skin of it
        adapt like an animal in it’s new climate
        wrapped like a basket

2.

        unweave this DNA
        wag open the boxed bird
       set it out in random weather

        our house lifted off its feet
        somewhere  in the middle
        the femurs in Kansas
 still sticking out like the vultures had stayed.

        no bees
        only open wood hive left
        waiting for its first feast of rain

        the stomach of this city will now look like
        a leopard field of dark cavities
        all blood drained

        a trail wet orange peels left on the grass

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