a
religious poem for the insane
trephora, who comforts me even in death,
brought me to the valley of eyes in the maturing days, when hope for love and
my species was yet based on the quicksand of reason and not – as it has become
– on the terra firma of dream
this valley, full of eyes. i saw a great many
eyes on the floor of the valley, eyes that were very closed. and i was prompted
to speak and i spoke and the eyes rose from the floor of the valley and began
orbiting around one another like regulated flies
dream, a love undoing history’s doings on
ringing rungs around rounds of absent absinthe in briny barns to rival evil
valor out of saline sorts without much mulch or much of any lunch or hunch that
would undo our dreams
as it has become. there’s a hole in my spirit,
dear liza, dear liza. quicksand or dream, either-or or those other things. when
i was young and breezy like a flock of ferns and didn’t weep like now but
differently love and death danced happily, i counted stars
trephora, who knew grey poems of the desert,
involuted sestinas of sand, entered the shadow palace of my forgettings and led
me to the valley of eyes, those factories of clocks and hypnopomp, black pits
of selfhood pocking white seas of uncountable desire
this valley, bittersweet vision. i spoke and
eyes rose from the floor orbiting like failures and i said, show me the time you were fleshed and saw
with the suffering of flesh, and now what are you without your limbs and
awkwardness?
dream, dear diatribe and dearer delirium
circumnavigating circumstances circumspectly with plums palliative and pugnacious dumped
by mammogram mommies on psilocybin cities on dearest dufflet desserts dearest
dearests dreams
as it has become. the hole, quite holy wholly
quiet all you need is holes beam me up blotty to a past i never knew, in chains
or singing sea or saying games or nothing wipe me down with the isopropanol of
pronominal questions, eye discount counts
trephora, who desired eyes more than love,
who equating eyes with love – what the
cost of denying this equation? disturbing me in valleys of viscera – did
not neglect to climb the ladders of my garrets if only to draw me down as well
water a leaky bucket
this valley, petrichor of tears. we have wept for our absent bodies, those
limbs of pain. and i found myself in clouds of eyes, electric and flashing
webbed like lightning and full of forms not yet seen in the viridities of human
passage
dream, perusaling grandiloquences grunting
peruvian plants like lactating tongue doctors on time stations stationed in
emitting mighty moontimes oh egg! bless my lesions lesson me in learnings
scattings walkings dreams
as it has become. none of this has resonated
i tell my children on footstools of scalped gods ears as waxed as centuries
eyes as brief as rain none of this you dogs history has a chance to be not what
it will be and this beloveds is love no rather, rain
trephora, whom i love like butter up the ass
and who is gone like red heifers speaks to me in those stagings of night of eyes
so sunken and black into voids of antiflesh none who would see them would ever
see
this valley, coital desert. we have become ourselves. we are perfect
like artichokes. we see ourselves like eggs over hard on easy beds. and i
too am an eye and have lost my body in the singing sea of flesh and who would not
rejoice, this progress of eyes
dream, chanting chaises or smoked chanteuses
channeled in church séances through flowing fuliginous filibusters to lofts so
lofty clouds cluster chthonic of rice and ken and oinking threepence in scented
skies or dreams
as it has become. i see sums of darkness like
voices in rivers. where has whiteness gone? we are not electric like rain or
numbers, you have misunderstood. gaze or glance with us at evolution and do not
say we have (or been) counted much,
we who neither know nor see
trephora dreams in this valley as it
has become with neither eyes nor petro
logy but floors of waiting of cars that
look like bubble gum balls, and i dream too
of similarities and talking cheese
those random forgivings these hopes of gram
mars of hopes