Monday, December 5, 2011

Dirigible Earth



sorry I slithered out of your glue, primates in the trees called time, I screamed hoarse

ventured to build a better society, got lost in the bushes outside your dream, headphones

watched the glow from a late show, saw space traces bullet down your house, big armchair

back at the bottom line, bad coordinates for living, what the pipe smoked, what I hoped

a charged houseplant with claws mangled the musical psychic air, it helps to have limits

nail down the rope so its lengths can be pulled taut, nailed again, misfire, rocket launch

I don't have the butterfly trigger, the war bonnet of smoke, no network to Windhoek

the heat got to the engine, the oxygen got to the iron, the pigment painted a dye

the balloon had combustion carrying revolution, the tropic utterance of a bay

a singer's sabbatical in an ocean of snow, mountain crest groping dark

no precognition, no energy from the sun, just a rusty sleigh ride

snowshoe hares and spry foxes, stuttering, staggered lines

all that was left was an empty gondola barreling

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