Sky stories dirt stories

 opening up the channel 

for an origin story to arrive 

plucking out strains of 

shame and misogyny

trying to sneak their way in 

loving on the leaves 

whose veins show paths for 

repairing harm 

making a way 

out of the hole of being 

mistaken 

lost 

temporarily cruel

searching for the conflict 

that is a thick mud 

for roots to strain against 

to give the story heft and weight 

and an arc of something 

divinely grounded to end on

The Leak

 

Unfocused, get over the month of May,
exams are not a true test.
Switch off take it easy the panic
the time from where does it flow how to
keep it from coming how to clamp it at
the source-
I'm already holding the envelope
up to the light 
I can see results 
ink blotted through
B, C, C.
Time rising, triple pile up of the front and back
all those cars on fire in the fog
on the M4 I remember driving in a monsoon
in Texas I saw forks on the lip of time
and then I couldn't see.
Please, I can't be the first to stop
everything is passing me I don't
want to take it easy who
on the M4 had their destination
slide out of view?
Then we were all
stopped on the freeway, 
never been rattled this way by the rain before wondering who decided to stop first and who would be the first to peel away.