0: Of Field And Fire
Having entered we reside
at the side
of the Image Maestro,
his universe
sewn into our pockets.
Beyond his screen door, a fire dimension
whose articulation, frozen
hides somewhere inside zero.
Never mention any keyholes, he said,
the buoyed mouth to him is
his yours mine
afloat,
We are air, newborn
In a sky of sudden water—
Water’s private pain.
Double walking blinking screen
awakened
inside his approaching mirror
invited to witness
his opposite direction,
am light man afire am wall being written.
Post dream dialogue:
Emptied our pockets cascade onto a glow-in-the-dark bookshelf
as the middlelight of nightmusic orchestrates
a school of neon fish
swims
through
the strapped
chair
swims through the sleep of reason.
Under ceramic-light’s central veil
translucent sails
our cloth hands
hold
two orange gourds;
For each abandoned shadow: the stench of fresh sacrifice.