when orders
for evacuation
come over loudspeakers
the forest is at the center of the predicament
their position keeps changing in the backroom
dolling up the F-word with sequins
we know what is coming is the
oldest malediction against gravity
keeping pressure on the wound
writhing against
impressions the
center brought us
a new kind of anvil
dropped without the
slightest apprehension
we later lapse into a season of latent beauty
leveling quiet towns in their sleep
somewhere north of here the beginning of
the Mississippi is a bucket of water
we tilt our
ears from
blankets of
sweat and cum
overhearing birds in
their temples of the trees