After Bhanu Kapil’s Ban en Banlieue

Written near a lake in Up North Michigan

 

lie down in my back garden

lie down in the sand

lake thrums

colors of the body on the floor

boot beat

old Nazis live around the bend in the water

bend the water

prism sprays to the stars

starlink crawls alien

debutante shimmers in Fordite colors

lie down in the place

not from here

alien crawl color

somatic effects of oppression

sky fall star fall black boot

on the beach, on the shore, the boat

bar brawl along the highway, mechanical hog

gothic firs line like sentinels the long straight ribbon North

emit[s] a solar heat

sunfall deep cloud howls into water

the insides of my eyes were cold

behind the tourist dune, skirt spread and all the blood

cabin dread on meth

lie down in the sand

there she walks along the highway

deep green dark blue lake