Arsenic Lobster poetry journal |
Issue Thirty-one Spring 2013 |
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Earth Science Callista Buchen We light up our fields with fire. Tire tracks like teeth and small, wet arches. The farm becomes a golf course becomes a subdivision becomes back home. People want to triumph. To triumph burning the field. The islands about to sink in the south Pacific. A sentence can not go on without foundation, without cinder blocks, without a large pile of clay next to the hole, which is not the foundation itself, but rather the record of it, yet not of the foundation, but of its construction. And this, too, goes flat over the yard before the frame rises. We want to shape the knoll. Divert the waters. The story. Arrange vertebrae. Nails. The sound of it: island, island, island. Bones and shadows. Cities of twins, everywhere islands of twins. There is a you and there is another you holding clay hands, blinking clay-smeared eyes. Cracking, hardening in the heat. One of you runs to the firehouse. The other licks the burn. The knoll. The waters. The knoll. The waters. The sentence. The island. To understand it geologically. This is the goal. To burn out the invisible, to stand until the sea and the heat overtake. To swim. Until the buildings build each other and all the books are broken spines. Until the people eat clay shaped like punctuation. Until we try to leave. Until the people hunt for twins. |
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