COMMUNICATION

I.

glowing mountain of dread

smoke consumes our visions

we use whatever we have left

to yearn 

for yoke of foreign suns

bloodletting, the familiarity

the slavedriver 

II.

The mountain smoulders 

lightning harangues 

black covering for the unwitting 

frozen by fire 

breathe in holiness 

breathe in terror 

III.

how can this world contain

that which spoke it into being  

the appearance of fire 

stone, our mirror 

an impossible weight 

the future travels toward the past 

every pair of hands visible 

the universe must collide with itself 

IV.

did your insides

melt upon visitation 

a stone too large a comparison 

the sun as a shadow 

a secondary source 

V.

intercede with our hearts 

diarrhoea tar pits

even though they are already resisting

acid. gravel. tendrils.

as long as time 

endlessly interloping 

Don’t come near us

Please come near us