DANCING WITH KIKO ON THE MOON
On the far side we're kicking up tundra out of tú
& no one & no one
on earth can see
though they swear by
(-we) though do not sing to
moonwomen, sickle-hipped & shape
-shifting & very well maybe & most certainly do
their wishes bounce
& chase after & chew
our moondust
when we are carousing with stellar winds & moon-
gust
Oh moon we're over the
you about you
Dear moon do you need a tundra to look after
tú dear
familiar dear shipwrecker
salamander with wings of swallowtail
lucky charm fisher-
queen waterless & aloof
It's just us two & we are twisters
that don't leave the ground to [ ]
Welcome to our moonhaus
& we don't have to ghost
shout we're all the worlds living between tú
which is why the moon
wears her sunglasses at night
where exploding stars fall
shock breakout bright
when kiko & I are kicking up
a tundra out of tú
& summoning the sun & dew & oh
we're over the you of you
& howling until the wolves coo
until the cow jumps over [ ]
& we enchantress
shine our super red from giants blue
& dear nasa rogue
that's us collapsing
gravity so star power
we vogue
& oh meteorites & asteroids we set fire to
& make more than a planet out of
dear [ ]
& dear moon
do you need a
do you need a
she looks
after
the far side of
we are
all the dark side moonwalking after you
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from THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURE IS YOU
Let's not skin a
horse and wear it together.
Elsewhere I have to say no. Elsewhere I can't stand
The smell of all our blood pooling together,
Like horses awakened too early under the skin of the artic.
Don't ask how far I would go to skin
An uninhabitable place of its song.
Elsewhere I kiss the mezuzah and enter a home,
But fortune hunters arrive with the first snow,
And all I hear are weary horses within weary door.
To not skin will make us thin and mutinous.
And the horse is many, and I am
Spiraling footpath and high
Fence with pointed tips
Poisoned, the perfect circle
Under the spell of mountains laurels.
Elsewhere crows must always flap their wings.
Elsewhere a single raven is many
Paths circling, intertwining.
We inhale deeply their feathers
And another life is saved. Even then I'd say no
To farmstead, longhouse, box-bed.
I'll drink no more from golden chalice
Stolen straight from a king's lips, nor hang
Crucifix, portrait, parchments,
Even this skin
To cover all the doors we've broken.
For all the sulfur clouds of Venus
Where a single day is longer than its year would I only
Give this skin. I'd endure the frozen side of Mercury
And breathe the gas rings of Saturn
If it meant I could return to you
The kind of darkness in which nothing survives
Until it awakens
Some new planet
Right here
In our solar
system– a
cold
Cold
Distant no one
Has seen it
As we tell it
An army of horses rising like lazarus
If lazarus had never risen
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