Spillable Items

Spillable items 

Wet shoes wet car two umbrellas curly hair 

human, in stop motion 

Slow lotion

Under the pavement 

Are buried tracks

Is wonder is the hope of frozen generations

Germinating in captivity 

In between, we jangle, are predeceased

We spatter 

Blossom rain, main sail, nascent birdings

Bone unfurling 

These are cherished 

offerings 

(but not all. you asked for all but we must preserve. ) we must reintegrate. we must remember. 

before the rains came

before you stopped 

before the rivulets

before the dams

before the damned

Barrel brave and candle flicker 

sick moon, waning swagger

sick moon, fallen gather 

sick moon, tiny monsoon 

And shatter

Degraded, incrementally 

Terrified and tender 

Coming slowly to understand something 

Never to know her 

Stop 

(Hands to ears)

We're here!

We’re here!

Burlap and baby hair

My god, all these years

Oh perfect preservation 

(and all things holy)

What I wouldn’t give for 

simple mercy