VERSION 2 — THE MEMBRANE DISCOVERIES
Cracked Open Fun Sun Day
AzaLea ... SoleMN ... HeaVen ... ZeaL ... MN hiding in soleMN ... Minnesota was always inside the grief ... The flower and the fire share the same bone ... Raw asylum ... asylum before it was cooked into policy ... granted to people who have fled ... home countries that stopped being home the way a floor stops being a floor when it falls ... Drop the stone ... count the seconds ... the water at the bottom is black and cold and it's been waiting ... A name walked into the well and forgot his blanks ... Home was a word ... was ... past tense ... the floor fell ... no one could summer it back ... Home is a well ... Home is a root ... Stuck Brooding Breadwinners hatching something dark in their chests while their hands keep making the bread ... nobody at the table knows the breadwinner is sitting on a fear that hasn't hatched yet ... The breadwinner won the bread and lost the kitchen ... Sluffs Who Lost Their Appeal ... the sound a body makes when it slides off a surface that was supposed to hold it ... the appeal sluffed off the desk and landed on the floor that fell ... lost in the court and lost in the face ... What is the purpose of US carrying a lot of our personal belongings on your body ... You carry your belongings because belonging is what you lost ... the purpose is measuring the depth of the fear by how much you're willing to strap to your own bones before you walk ...
Should We Be Worried is what the person who poured concrete over the roots asks when the roots come through anyway ...
In a window capsule still waiting of insights ... brrd ... the bird that can't finish its own name because the window is closed ... stick their ass to the wall ... the wall is the final country ... your wish has been granted ... the wish was asylum and the granted was a capsule ... This could have been written by anyone ...
The garden says propagated and the government says populated ... O'orelsan grammar broke out and held onto acting fresh compound modifiers ... well-founded ... stuck-brooding ... An Effective Mental Assemble of Organic Tidbits ... the pieces haven't sat down yet ... guileless Love Plants ... five cups for two and no explanation ...
Vibrant ... Alive ... Belly Full ... the belly is full because someone made it to the table where the bread was still warm and the brooding breadwinner finally put the bread down and ate ... leftover invitation paper corners ... the parts of the welcome that didn't fit inside the envelope ... shreds of fabric trimmed from a garment that never saw a runway ... drenched by heavenly sunlight on a seed-art altar ...
A nostalgic clear water bottle recalled a subway encounter with Broadway Ego Scent Kombucha wearing a big brown and white stripe bow ... clear and cloudy riding the same train sideways ...
Bare Thread Stray Sweater ... coming apart at one seam ... the undersized dented can of beans ... you don't dent a can in a kitchen ... you dent a can in a pocket on a train in a bag that crossed a border ... truncated articles that got cut before they finished saying what they came to say ... Whisper Cokum Cabrel sat on the winking face of my CHAIR for a little less than an hour ... Don't abandon Grandmother's Overlooked Monarch of the Plains Buffalo scarf ... the private animal underneath still breathing ...
Sentenced Once ... Christians in Egypt left for weathering heat ... Isolated streaming of dual geographies ... Enjoying digging reddish to blonde smelt grounds ... A traveling reporter sensing collapse through the sinus ... Stories including NUMBERS cached away in trunks and stone pits ... Interned Death on a Trail of Tears ... counted as collateral ...
I carried one bag across a city that was trying to count me ...
A spoon on the counter next to the stove ... not meaning anything ... just a spoon ...
The anger goes on for paragraphs and the love fits in a phrase ... the piece is two pieces and neither one knows it yet ... every object performs and the spoon on the counter has had enough ...
Journey spells ... electric blue knots combined with phonetic nonsense ... X affectation heard ... let hymn see ... the him became a hymn ... the man became a song ... the seeing is the singing ... ashes toned velvet hammers ... copper the color of skin in certain light ... the heat still on it from Egypt ... Tickle U Lavender ...
The grandmother is washing something under the water ... checking for damage with her thumb ... finding none ... setting it on the towel next to the others ... a family waiting for dinner in the sunlight that came through the window she never closes ... The butter knife is on the table where it always was ...
Although the mines are more alive than we usually take in ... ingest ... read ...
Grief needs our signature to be untouched ... the signature is the only document that's still a body ... a line that came from a wrist that came from an arm that came from a person still alive enough to hold a pen ...
