mental energy may be 90% frozen metaphor
and puzzles are the new currency
contestant boys memorize the entire Koran
Siberian tub kin 8000 line story of girl and a talking horse memorized
where that highrise now stands
had been a blacksmith"s shop
in the elevator a woman remembers a statue of a horse in Bryant Park
A Tohona O'odam village once stood
where the Interstate roared
A man in the back of a pickup imagines he is a hawk overhead in the instant before he is thrown out.
Leroy remembered that his mother had died of cancer
or the reverse
where Madison Square Garden stands
had been a magnificent train station
During the war
$ before cars, phones, literacy, computers
dove where lake had been
my parents were swimming there
but I could not recall their voices
orbit was Atlantis
and I could not remember the conversation
or it was a dead planet
in a [hospital white] galaxy
where I had wept for too long
and could no longer fill [the void]
where they had once spoken to me
July 2011