Pale straight from cave

wheezing out his chances
by the bus
 
the creak of his spine as wind
blow        ancient and angular
sprawling as calves
twitch and direct
         reach for air
         wipe the muck from your eyes
         stumble some sense of
direction     stumble ‘til ya stand
and get back to it ‘cause who the hell wants to
         stand              never, still
 
snow and sleet encumber mind
         even by palms
         the air is dead               she whispers
the grey antlers of the earth
moan and rumble dry rememberance
 
I too will pray
for our numb roots
 
give a sensation of floating
flutter the tattered flight of leaves
and crack to the halting
reality              cold steel and decomp-
                         ression valves
 
The hose releases them each in stream
drop and shape
           all the constellations
                                       in the moment              you were dry

 
so vibrant, and wheel rotation
          retreat so slow
                         back to his dusty corner
of dancing smoke                     the ashen
past thwarts action       --         reaction
chains pulled tight to trace
          all the constellations
                        in the moment                 they left      the floodgates
 
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