clothes lying in the field
fallow and forgot
putting on blue skin
from the soil’s nightly rot
summer’s gone and the first of the rains run across the ground
pregnant and imminent i don the nimbus crown
from this place i will not be or from this time i know
but like a fruit picked ripe i’m ready to go
languages augment!
and lineages transmute!
the hide-bound just push around
get rough and rude
and it breaks open the head as the feet break earth
dropping a hem of lightning and dirt
all the length of skin (making faces within)
all that i once called mine
is shuffling about
making the rounds
on currents galloping godly
rattling down into the ground
it makes a hollow bone of this body
cleaned out
my filth is everywhere
dry on my thigh
and stuck in my hair
wrapped in wool
scratching my skin
like a baby sensitive
and everything new
and i’m light so light
like a baby swaddled
light so light
my love untroubled
light so light
the old woman smiling down
light so light
on the first morning
and before me
each one wearing a crown
masters of light
and masters of sound
each one beloved
and what i’ve always known
i watch them at play
they’re shuffling about
making the rounds
on currents galloping godly
rattling down into the ground
it makes a hollow bone
of this body
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