The Meeting
I called for ornament and it was where
we met in the shape of the world not yet present
Was the meeting
In order for strange plants to grow in their underground bunker
feeding from the fish who fed on corpses
a hermitic machine’s wet cycle
to finally be dragged out into the polluted open
for their leaves and bodies to meet with
& shed or thrive their way into a new existence
Was the meeting
For the soft ones hiding in the houses of doves
full of coos and rustles
to finally be accepted and walk on the floor of dusk with brown wings
Was the meeting what undid my body as mirror
Holding image fast to the flatness of a surface
& when this letting go touched the plants and doves
& their years
their will against decomposition
What was the content of this meeting
Did we sing in a debate choir the merits of our bounceback
saying
hold me closer
while the world burns
I called for ornament and it was where
we met in the shape of the world not yet present
Was the meeting
In order for strange plants to grow in their underground bunker
feeding from the fish who fed on corpses
a hermitic machine’s wet cycle
to finally be dragged out into the polluted open
for their leaves and bodies to meet with
& shed or thrive their way into a new existence
Was the meeting
For the soft ones hiding in the houses of doves
full of coos and rustles
to finally be accepted and walk on the floor of dusk with brown wings
Was the meeting what undid my body as mirror
Holding image fast to the flatness of a surface
& when this letting go touched the plants and doves
& their years
their will against decomposition
What was the content of this meeting
Did we sing in a debate choir the merits of our bounceback
saying
hold me closer
while the world burns