Disinheritance
I remember how you threw a stapler at me from across the
room & when I think of it now the stapler hits a wall in my
mind slams metallically on the floor but I see you weren’t
mad at me you were mad at yourself the things you do to
your children are like etchings on metal plates they carry
these plates with them through their entire lives & when
new situations arise they pull out their etched metal to try
and make sense of what’s happening before them for
example my natural reaction to people is to wonder what I
have done to upset them & it’s because of this stapler
etching you gave to me when I was six because your life
was falling apart not mine so I am giving this thing back to
you it hasn’t helped me & it is heavy.
A Breath
Prana-Sanskrit for
breath—a vital life
sustaining force of
living beings flows onto
the page in symbols
of abstract black
ink which the mind has
bound up with meaning
& our mouths sculpt breath
putting sound to these
symbols that break the
plane of lips & enter
this new quantum
Universe where quarks
& strings pulsate to
every single sylla-
ble so before
you engage the muscles
in your cheeks &
even think of lowering
your jaw &
forming your tongue to
shape this force realize
the resulting rhythms
you skip across
the reflective
surface will ripple
& dance & tickle
& stab the beating
apparatus of
everything that has
ever existed.
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