when ontology meets the rock chapter 1 the sun past out under a charred maple prescription's in flames you fill it anyway your rotisserie of thirty explanations lies undivided in sunlight the heartwood leaves you sapped once the tap screws in I run the kabuki trail deerflies rap your nape chapter 2 The sun's a risen welt The skin's a flood creek The blood's a blown seed The hand's a curved beak The weed is marrow The nerve's a leaf I am a thrush feathers are grief chapter 3 Things that fall from a height break in threes aren't fixable are forgotten are fixable but unusable until fixed are usable when broken are never forgotten are broken by children shattered bones of animals the thing that hit a window a window hit by a thing Things that cause weeping cause bleeding cause death when broken break from use break from rage are witnessed by Quakers wings and antennas of butterflies necks snapped by the noose monster truck breakings squirrel cracked nuts soft-boiled eggs chapter 4 carry the sea washing grief's gifts give every wave waves cannot lift The world as seen from the world I want to lie down in violets I want the sum of sorrel twinge on tongue tip I want goldenseal and capsicum Not pollination by deception No I want the wasp to mate at the wasp's pace Let yellow dust cover the bat's face What happens when black is subtracted? What happens to the rodent's cache? I want sand to fracture ever smaller I want a cloudless sulphur I want bitterbrush I want the thrush Three Ideograms |