Water from a Stone
Decomposure

what can the hungry do but digest their stomach?

oh what can the thirsty do but squeeze water from a stone?

did the sower scatter them knowing they would find no soil

and be eaten by birds or roasted in the sun?


i have written this before with different words, shuffled adjectives

night a nearby knife or thumbnail

punching through the tape sealed blue box i’ve sent to myself

in it are streetlights like glazed eyes in the mist,

wet pavement, sorted socks

and new words formed in undead light at the same height

oh nobody slow and deliberate

wavering like schematics of wind through my left

mainlining pea soup, pining to sleepthrough daydreaming

a leech as long as my arm with a thousand red bulletpoint mouths

feeding fall, no, stuffed into next season’s chamber

a few more as if there is a mythic window color

rigged to a onearmed bandit accepting thin crosssections of living tissue

scrap this section and start over.


so i’m sprinting through gravy

slowmotion knees rising and driving down

in search of plant tile, swimming in air

knitting hands like marshmallows on forked sticks fourteen feet away

tapping a pine box lid in darkness

a christmas tree with no needles dropping its ornaments,

painted eggs spitting soft blades of yolk between my fingers

sliced webless. i don’t have it.

i cannot candycoast on cartoon hope

for i have signed my teeth to an identical home

and bottled the ocean in the earpiece of the phone

i have drunk the foam.

my wireless eyes on no bars carrying their bags through the fog

palms alight and absorbed to sweet curlicues

of the color i invented when i was four

a novocaine snarl counting backwards from ten.

the snailwalker always apologizes but does not stop

filling boxes with sand and talks in spot colors, hyped monochrome.


confidence is a self-fulfilling prophesy our slick modern seers sell


cruising the corporate backstreets for tight drivethrus

and meat wrapped in shiny dresses

a space heater to dump down my gullet

like my lungs could steal from my sweatstomach

then drive back in silence as it hisses from my pores

profile of a trade prince, no depth perception or wild

gluing macaroni to construction paper for valentines day


everything small wants to grow,

to eat drive own and no more.

it is not yet known,

some never find it at all.

an axis to pasture the rolling emerald malls

polished and vivid; lost, for there are no new novels:

‘a thousand words’ is unnecessary where a cheerful mascot will do,

thirded and sweeping you over the hook at towering glass skylines

split down the sternum, bellies spilling lukewarm lakes over our lawns

friends and followers to convince us we’re not alone,

that you are biding your time, not aging

that there is a starburst apocalypse locked within,

waiting to be hit by fate’s broomstick

chance is chalk forgotten after each epiphany

blooming new like the yesterday we first awoke

and could not remember sleeping,

the tomorrow where we felt the same

a string of past rooms that breed in dream

childhood friends without faces or names,

and now there is nothing to say to them.

i was ruined from the moment i picked up a ruler,

i spoke left and the words radiated backward before it was wrong

chairs that could face song where young pundits could only laugh

with so many wallets but only a few pennies in each


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