WAVES WITHOUT SEA

Chapter 1 Any Longer

Because of the eye the hand fell apart into countless waves which pushed the fingers of the sun back and forth along the skin until the skin couldn’t any longer contain life or keep out the world

Chapter 2 Again One More Time

The night is losing its hair again the rain is coming in a rhythm as unsteady as these plants trying again one more time to make the dead remember that light has a face

Chapter 3 After All

After all the river could swallow us not whole but bit by bit like the stones beneath our feet

but if instead it swallowed the breath between us we could see each other without light without eyes that build distance upon drought without words that push us from the earth from the froth and the spray of weight

after all the river is neither earth nor sky but their violent marriage at our feet

Chapter 4 A false Sky

A river hides the earth beneath a false sky composed of shifting edges and shattered light the earth is glad to be free

but the sky resents being its mask any longer contain life or keep out the world