1902
spine fluid and meadow plants and orchards replaced by metallic black heat a burst of shrubs, bodies cut in two by an oak a direct hit most die just following the path of air * splitting open stone arranging pebbles in patterns in the dark pulling throats around us a little tighter sweat and nervous breath hung between two kinds of language and one will soon die * years of light, each bit of re- born tissue sings fertile once we will be again open and spilling side by side taking in and giving back the sound of rivers of grass