darkness inside a thin
lightly yellow sphere
dim movement, shadow flutter
shadow darkness; the earth’smurmur
worldentwining, twisting
celldoms torpid muddy light
if the gray and the black
count as light
at the center of my eye







the light, and in the light
movement away from the light
orphanages were, the children
and hunger dictates
that green does not follow red
that if not transit terminal storage
to just do your job was
and orders, the reading of orders was
following orders
soil was, movements, corporeal
raise their hand to
their hands were, the grip
to eat of the children’s food was, with
your back free you them mine against my own
mother will come through
the blind spot
night after night
and the bourgeoise, bourgeois
prove and blaze 
boltsBulgaria





one, an
an eternity
in the cargo space towards Dover
with a plastic bag over the head for breathing
for the carbon dioxide detector’s sake
the head beneath the water
with a mother’s hand pressing down
the child’s head beneath the surface was
the beams of light searching across
the water, the dogs’ barking
trade, cigarette currencyCalais













birds, arrivals, prisoners were
electroshock therapy, the sign
Aung San was under house arrest
in the name of the Burma that was
and the Burma that was not
refugee barracks were
the functionaries; space of semblance  
earth quakes; camps; daily a life
water rations; face
the possible grafted onto
the impossible; outward surfaces, in the image
of sunset facades
across Bucharest’s widest avenue
underlings freeze mid-movement 
inward through the innards of 
the shell front; inside the liquid red
were also: oligarchs, oligarchs’
nothing; to lay a hand on the undocumented
african maids 
who were, who disappeared inDubai

there faces, police registries; falling accidents
buried was; excuses
buried in the ground to the chest
and the size of
the hand-picked stones; she was
and the children who threw
stones as if to block the circulation
towards the fire truck, the ambulance
sirens, the sirens
circles of blue lightrecollection
light of recollection; and the afterlight