Finding an ear
to talk about feelings
first you must explain
to an ear your mouth
An ear can understand
only certain situations
ear activities
odds and ends
of bones
shivering artifacts, flesh
that manages
small deformations
involute quantities
teeth are legible to ears
but lips are inconceivable
and tongues
Have you actually witnessed
a larynx?
Maybe a surgery
on television
dramatic reenactment
with pen knife
or dread to think
hollow tube of a pen
How do you enforce
your contracts
A stone marked
better safe than sorry
and not sorry
so likelier safe
but not entirely comforting
In such unserious emergencies
all of the promises
spoken and assumed
before the vow of silence
aswirl in the catastrophe
of books euphemistically recycled
stains on the carpet figures
recollapsing the perfect circle
fruit of inquiry
archeologists: 1, archeology: 0
Mashing buttons
marked what does this do
then when
you start to think about
the wetness
of the water
does it help you
get less wet?
Fleeing
along its surfaces
toward the fireworks
of the starlit horizon
with a damp slosh
in your earlobes
like thinking about
a thought
What is the name
of that curve?
How broken
can lines be?
When my mind
exceeds or frustrates
my unexamined expectations
I imagine myself
still having yours
a full mind
in the mind archives
in the mind business and
in the mind your business business
I have to trust you
on a slime mold life level
sort of alive
beyond the crystal world
and in spite of
my supposed allergies
to dust or mites that live on dust
or eat dust for sustenance
or eat the other mites
instantly and constantly
forgetting
so never forgotten
can you imagine
what you can’t conceive
feeling the void
around the unthought idea
long enough for the feelings
to vegetate there
for unthoughts to think themselves
into the salty crevices
of regrown organs
where future birds
build future nests