My
mind is a great expanse
And
I wander within
it,
this place.
Sometimes
it is a jungle,
wet
and dream-breathing.
A
house with many rooms.
Sometimes,
it is an ice river,
cold
and whipped turbid,
thick
with mountain.
Sometimes,
it
is a drained pan of a planet,
stone-stolen
and lonely,
seared
by the rip sun:
wasted.
All, wasted.
And
it has also been a salt-flat:
miles
of sticky mire,
my
footsteps immortalized
like
a moving fossil.
I
sometimes
want
to lay down in it,
the
mystery
of
it.
My
body often becomes tired.
I
have wondered before
about
ruination.
I
become a child with her hand in her mouth,
and
paralyzed.
But
always, always
words
are birthed
in
the soft murk of the bottom
edge
of a world.
It
has been like this for us.
From
a frightening rot,
we
emerge into a treasure funk,
speaking.
I
translate myself, again.