ice
in my soul.

buried
under snow

silence

flowers

night
clear
without end

dying
moon
tells you
everything
you need
to know now

blade

blade
against flesh
of melody
melody
of moon

once fertilized fields

now
it gives light
to the bodies
scattered
from one
tree to
another tree

roots visible
wrapped with arms
severed at shoulder

send soldiers
with spades
to flatten
soil & skin

death's dance
labor
too tired
to tell
how heart
went

grotesque grandeur
of small
men
body

shoe
lace(s)
noose
of wheel
within

wheel axes
bent beyond
transport

to tell
old town
how it had
fallen

bricks
being
totem
talisman
for ongoing

going on
go further

final

dark stars
concealed in corner
of cellar
return

return again
to build

or to bury

or to forget

walls washed
in flesh

words
consume words

i will be
crude

tell you time
stopped then
has not
moved minute
since
silence

stalks
you
down
stairs

stalks
without sight

eyeless

perfectly
precise

beloved
I sing
to you:
under red sheets

words
another means
to weep

trace
silence in darkness

beloved
by the
bodies
by the
bodies

frozen
flesh

waves of storm
will not part

bodies
will not balance

I tremble
tremble

weeds

worms

bodies
become less
than ice

we will be
each other's grave
where life
hidden
bite
stone

breathe
death beloved

sing

sing to me

sing
how we were

sing
how we were
separated

breathe me
see sea

breathe
haunted
bird

breathe
blade

breathe
beads
& string
hang

hang

hang
from
high
beam

beam
completely covered
in crows
dead
&
living

will
you

wash me

wash
me

yes you will
wash me
in you

will you
weep

wash me in me
me into me

stars
not infinite

rusted
hospital window
covered
in
clay

come with
me baby
wash

wash
all this
wash me

witness
window's
reflections
of reptiles
tying
themselves
around our
bloodied
bodies

baby
i cried

baby i cried
all
night

languor
for last

languorous
for last train

train
to come

ô hear
whistle wail

here
in
hospital

they
hose
you
down

until
you can go
no further

no

no
further

burn
off this
blood

darling

dying
so long ago

some street sydney

crime
squad hurling me
in harbor

if i remember
exactly 1977
month

i'm barely living
now

no
now no

wash me

wash me
with your white
scarf

wash me white

black as lumumba
in blood's
rainbow

settling
over skin

night
enters
night

so
early

wash me
darling

i'm dead
wash
me

clean as cabral

after they
shot sage

behind bushes
bleeding

prefer that
to drowning

wooloomooloo 1977
exactly october date

great revolution
turning

over
& over again
in water

i couldn't swim
sweetheart

detective sergeant
standing
there with them

uniformed
keepers

of peace
i have
never known
in this life

or one
coming

they leaving

me battered
doll on shore's
edge then

i knew
i was so
beautiful

condemned to
carnage

this
or that
country

until
i got married
in 18th arrondiement

for few hours
with rapunzel's beautiful
& understanding
sister

belarusiian
pole parisian
from her feet
to her chausson
pomme (h)anna(h)

caught
cord
between

fingers typing
in nine languages
& silence

her master
in everyone

& in refinery
explaining to normaliens
what
water
is

what
water
is

wash me
wash

watched
me
wash

wash me
wash
me

until
i
am
black

as i
was born
darling

darling
i died
long ago
with ancients
working our numbers
in prague perhaps
with rebbe loew

who

who

who

who
taught me
so tactfully
numbers
& numbers

no

how
he helped
who

who

who

who
i
was
doll
on shore
of harbor
battered by blue
monsters

wet
their
pants
panting

panting

panting
i was dying
so

so
long ago
long time
time

tell nothing
except
it burns
so brightly
in syringe

i freeze

i freeze

wash me

wash me
into man

that i am

that i am

over
& over
again

so
again

so
again

so
beautiful

who can tell

wash me
all way

through
other side

to whomever
i was

wash me

wash me
in my blood

introducing
shadow to night
now
night knows
silhouettes
shiver

shake
shriek
form
from

bowels
of beast

bellowing
ten thousand
broken bells
smashed
against skulls
& skin

pebbles
perish
infallible
shadow inclines

bird’s wing
what of wing

regard
waters widen
sister beloved sister

night
color of night
fractures
fortification
fear
kiss fissure
fission
fears
weight of wing
what of wing
beat
skull
balls fall
bloodied

bellow
below
below

vigil
vipers
take
on body
earth so
cold
so cold
rock so
secret
divisions
horses howl
out to beloved
sister
listen
to
trampling
feet
flatten
flesh
subtractions
squalid
after

after
apparitions arrive
recall
contour of cave
draw
dead
on panel perhaps

genesis
grotesque
pathetic

pity
pity

souvenance

crows come
to collect
substance
of
souls

eyes
blood
water

come crow
carry water
to valley
down below

surrounded
starve
men
last

first
running
savage
sea

final

figure
on fingers
before

face
worn
down
to bone
divined
here in hell
horizon

turn back
to sea
illumination
immolates

crowds
chasing
one another
& animals

blades
spades
crashing
crushing

cutting
noise
not nature
noise
nausea
know
premeditated
pandemonium
discord
degraded
into
din

wind
wounded by breath

seconds
centuries
congregate with creatures
coming

for
beast
time
into time

trembling
trepidation

foreboding
frightening figures
come
to comprehend completely
terrified
trembling

shrill speaking
regard
shriek seismic
flinch

fight

regard
shudder
thrust
through silhouette
in sleep
dreams detonate
mine
within mound

carrion
carry away
with wing
upon wing
representation
of rats
& reptiles

devour morsel
by morsel
listening
to blood’s
memory

immerse
in intestines

from first
sound

sense
last of first
slither
through fissures
time triggered

fall

fable
concoction
stars
& suns
held

hostage
horizon
hears
howl

night
into
night

papa legba

smuggle
secrets

liquidate
lies

bother
beast before
waking

cross
border

sklin sea

find time

smuggle
secrets

back
to back

time
will be
changing of guard

walking in water
in winter clothing

starve
& speak

change

mind
mess of matter

cold
feet

you

remember
being ransacked

don't you
papa

legba

that is
why

you never
left

edicts with emanations

who went
on to become
firemen
within walls

another assigned
to apartments falling
apart
moving mattresses
sheets
pillow cases

carrying peril

needing
what you need
now

not
what
you may not
need in future

whenever
that would be

only
for
some

others becoming
smoke
or bucket
for bullets

boots
loose
at top
so stuff
food
stuff

stand
in front
of stand

for forest

beings
becoming forest
of bullets

another
assignment
for assembled

remember papa
legba

west so wicked

west so wicked

we will
be done

identification
in
inferno

precise
papers

otherwise you

lost

amongst air

legba papa
legba

bring your boots
burgle books
from barbarians

elites eviscerated
one from other

running
to ramp

to be
counted

this how

it
is

infected
laying on straw

blood on thigh

bed
close to door

smuggling
secrets

to
birds

to take

too

beast

wheelbarrow
shovel

pick

pump out
water
from lake

mud

smuggle
secrets
submerged up
to neck
in shit

without witnesses
except birds