Nowhere We'll Also Never Be

With our wounded mouths

Slightly chlorinated nevertheless

We make noise till we’ve had enough

O listen!

Vast syllabic nebula galactic nervous system

Trembling and aflame the unexplained

Region of language

Listen we say we matter

Goddammit

Here we writhe

Like mute slugs beneath a stultifying blaze

Sun stunned and desperate for a bit of shade

Here we float on a little boat

Waiting for sound and sensibility

So we can throw the zebras overboard

And toss the zoo keeper too

Here we sleep without dreams

Silent in the outer reaches of the universe

Who cares how we got our cosmic eardrums

Leaving God nothing but his bones 

I'd Only Say to You

It’s not rare

Lost in a mother’s billowing linen

To drowse off dressed in dreams
Tracing a name in night’s thin voice

The ice knives of dawn

Waking and melting

When they touch bone