In the wood under the indigo skies,
A crimson flower grows among the dry,
Whose bright and shining petals stretch
Across the heaven earth like a sketch.
And with its petals bright:
Wrapped around the trees with light,
Swirling higher, higher, higher,
They climbed to the tops of the briars
Leaving a cloak as black as night,
And with the cloak around the trees
The green became dust in the breeze.
And when the flower finished its work
It lay dying with a satisfying smirk.
In the wood under the indigo skies,
A crimson flower grows among the dry,
Whose bright and shining petals spread Like a plague that will never end.
In the wood under the indigo skies,
A crimson flower grows among the dry,
Whose bright and shining petals stretch
Across the heaven earth like a sketch.
And with its petals bright:
Wrapped around the trees with light,
Swirling higher, higher, higher,
They climbed to the tops of the briars
Leaving a cloak as black as night,
And with the cloak around the trees
The green became dust in the breeze.
And when the flower finished its work
It lay dying with a satisfying smirk.
In the wood under the indigo skies,
A crimson flower grows among the dry,
Whose bright and shining petals spread Like a plague that will never end.
don me a river spiral
and radio talk, all screens gone
black
with fever
there is swelling in the creek,
water in the cheeks
and mangroves grown, in delta
bones disappearing, beyond the weight
of a body as it passes through;
time unpacks itself into the pause
and I, alive, can't reckon
what comes after this
what skin and nature wrought
from the colors we once were,
our simple heads spun out
into politics and science
into the heavy thump of our conscious
as it crashes
against a wall that borders our imagination
for we will never outrun
ourselves