Contusionist
a moth takes
so many
short whiles
into the light
dazzling, dalliance, spore
divine : “being”
in the world
mitochondria
use calcium
as an on-switch
(oh lucky stars)
spotlit
you
were
my
every
recovery
(Quartz)
* * *
and committed a
rock crystal
by shearing this
historical
lithograph :
body parts paralleling at sundown,
conifers in rank and upright
against an agatized landscape
the daylight
rusted
down
ocular accidentalists
trying
not to slip
* * *
Opal
*
in the body rotten mammalian
carcass night whiled
of its molecules
you are honey soft,
hang dogged,
making embrace
*
undergone, crystallized, you :
lattice of laminates dizzy-getting
the bright sides into
a band gap, unpassable
kiss coherence and glide
with no discernable structure, you
nothing like other, hold
for a moment
one body
of light
Cnidarian
granular habitats stamped:
while awaiting affections
of pollen baskets,
hillsides of lilies held
a calyx gone cold
pistiless floral receptacles
had fallen, fossilized
seemingly patient
suspension feeders
who might be starving
with nowhere else to go
Asteroidea
opportunistic aggressor
against benthic invertebrates
astral precursor of sea stars
who postured their stomachs externally
honeycombed microcrystals
that tessellate long-term engagements,
ossicles enduring as tombstones:
corpseless aboral armor of an animal
long-ago dispossessed of its limbs
In kept company
*
nowhere quickly and why we haven’t stayed stationary
here could be my exterior space, all possible
displacement into your company
this idea of outside and now I need when you are noise
*
polyps arrest their own animance, walk yonder
antimony : not alone and dearestness nuzzles.
be gentle and we both survive this.
*
cancers of squamous cavity coverers:
adnexal tumors undone-ing necessary appendages
there is no way to help how much of this is an accident