(for “someone traveling,” “sound of eating,” and, especially, “high in the sky” — of the Ojibwa, circa 1870)
read the river
for “high in the sky”
not so long ago. hands left
the chain
to dissolve
each winter. in the turning
cash
a boat wanders through
silently, for one
burning down
a knot
in the clearing, for a bird
an answer
erases. each one a
number left
to its root, the growth
of an infinite
eclipse, like the fern
a face makes
for words, in the train
a heart
a road ends. a twin, for her
morning, in the bloated
corn, in the burning…
her amputation, like a lake
arrives inside
to hear her whisper, the cipher
cuts through her living
in this, the attachment
for the hand to hand
doorway. what state in the
eclipse of its shadow makes
one stand? as a cloud
moves for the horses
of their songs, in the bomb
as it aims through the path
when visiting. each empire
China hidden in reflections, the weather
opens inside the highway of its prehistoric pit,
where the lake region, its language revolving
in the smoke as a circle
makes one arrive for the menial
white stone outside a harvest
of flesh nubs, a secretive
and silent family, without reward
as they are the unknown that starts
a thorn, as the morning
is standing for them in an open hand, they
speak. the underwater cave
determines the paths of a knotted interior
in a fall for choosing, lightning
does not remove the veil, behind the language
a river threatens for its music –
future wood in a soundless word.
then, it was the bicycle/ the commerce
of its kind in a radio permeation
as the leather makes one in its ocean see
the operator, the climbing
canoe where they arrive,
the shore wind stringing kingfishers
as they are a visitor, not one to receive
in the atrophy, the flag sound
as it is perfectly round
speaking – in a thatch, they were the signal
to understand. to return
their ground for the gun, as the differences between
the white and feverish park
and the winter in its cake
will not charge you, will not enter
its elaborate front. the spinning
in Panamá, their ghostly bus
will stand inside the arrival
as they become you, the sand
in its first word
ghetto plants in winter
on the run, the three are silent
with a visitation
trembling, invested, and the light
to wear one for the torso as it packages
the allure of your housing
with another plane to fill this, in the seat
of your miniscule cadaver, the dogs
are what any chain is shiny for
you, in the shelter under ropes
their vast landscape in the spoken
to the air far with flowers, a harpy eagle
swoops to the sloth as you wear
the matrimony and the only servant
filled with each starving donation, the poor
will become your iron – not what puts a hand
to your face. a fall for your region, the paper
makes families reside, with food, and a dog
in the aftermath as you speak
to wear the oil, the Alaskan terminal determined
the wild with its alarm, the on and off
reprisal believes you, what you speak to allow
a complete knowledge of interruption, the road
beaming for you to deliver the promise
as one stands for the flesh because / a human does not allow
or falling for the recent drone / you leak for color
in the spider web’s communiqué
it serves you as it is a word to belong / as one is not
as the speaking arrives to your western
with a relative, in the midnight
and each table does not attend to the vast dotted theft
you see. it is one to the root of your time with a pyramid
it is not there to it
it sees you as country, not a ring in the flight
of its standing for the glass
it is a tall mirror side of its house
it is one with time as it is a face
to not allow it. not one of a human affirmation
it does not let you one with the hand as it is nothing but a door
the promise is not a single plane
to the river it sees one out
it speaks as one is a tunnel
in air of it arriving with one to become / not one