
Category: geography
Ha!! Me, too…
Poof* Take MY water

pinpoint
Hell
is conveniently situated
between Ohio
and California
last night
shots rang out
slicing August’s midnight miasma
a quivering queen city listened
as Cherokee bells
echoed over cobblestones
black swan feathers topping lost hopes
filling horse-drawn funeral carriages
eighteen shot
four dead
blood pooling at the base
seven screaming hills
four shootings in Cincinnati
ninety fatal minutes
national news coverage
backlit red images
of our violent infection
suffer do we
these slings & arrows
whispering sacred prayers
to a god unlistening
please make
every bullet fired
explode into a spray
of evening primroses
thank you for maple syrup
Do you think
Canadians feel like
they occupy
the spacious attic
of hell?
we didn’t tear the veil
we sewed a pocket into it
of thee I sing
the true measure
of a civilized society
are the rumors
told by its ghosts
we can’t even claim to be
two ships passing in the night
as that would imply
we sail the same ocean
he has the pacific
i have the atlantic
we kissed once in argentina
on an archipelago