- Vol. 10
- Chapter 04
Bones and all
Filthy spat-on window and past it the world filthier still
Bones and all, I parcel into plastic and glass
imagine grass under feet, rash and prickling with life
imagine air in lungs, not coating, not sticking
the lungs of the earth still
spread
and
breathing
talking through touch of mushroom,
fungal flutter filing reports of drought, disease, human tread;
crowns overhead, dignified and never touching
Not much room for full lungs under
all this plastic and glass
Shallow shallow graves,
dig up dust with my toe nails
little by little
hard soles of feet wear
down the stones
unknot abandoned vessels of those lost lungs
Cooler, deeper, down
fidget dust through fingers
air through lungs
hopes through filthy spat-on window.
When rain comes I will not drown.