AzaLea SoleMN HeaVen ZeaL
Cracked open and stacked for Grandmother's final assembly ... Eight tools forged ... four flowers with buried letters ... Minneapolis inside grief ... Flowers and fire share the same bones ... A consonant cluster lodged at the node of the word the way Cage's bolts are lodged between strings of a piano ... dampening the fundamental ... amplifying what is underneath ...
Look at the dent before you look at anything else ... Stuck Brooding Breadwinners hatching something dark in their chests while their hands bake sacred bread ... Grandmother is washing something under the water ... checking for damage with her thumb ... Setting it on the towel next to the others ... A family waiting to have dinner ... Nobody at the table knows the head is sitting on a fear that hasn't hatched yet ... losing the kitchen ...
RA refined frequency was flagged the way a garden is flagged when it grows too close to the fence line ... Organized pressure points ... roots under concrete without holding a meeting ... Protections written in a language you can't read fast enough while the agent is standing at the door ... Raw asylum ... before it was cooked into policy ... The way a seed is raw before it's a plant ... granted to people who fled ... Home countries ... and the way a floor falls ...
These herbs don't need anyone smiling at them to grow ... Cuts cooked ... Rivered directly from buried soup ... granted to people who have shelter ...
WELL-FOUNDED FEAR ... that legal system asking us to prove our well has water in it ... while we're measuring the depth with a stone ... prayer book ... and supposed go-to form ... Drop a stone and count the ripples ... DUG ... the wishing well has cold bull at the bottom ... Black and red waiting ...
