black sutures divide the ruddy / smudges from the marshmallow plains
high dry blues sink under the weight / of feathered whoop, dripping with feed
the kinesiologist says
the scar is more than memento
is an active site of rupture
and the ensuing violence
of heal as in any landscape
black sutures divide the ruddy
flesh as they seam it, throwing up
new crust which may not seem
to feel
but which is not dead, is tissue
—soft, likely as ever to tear
lightning bolt or abandonment
pierces the brush torches the trees
smudges the marshmallow stratus
cinder in our recreation
-al mouths skin not fit for living
death distracts the lungs with every
breath but under the smouldering
is animation, an impulse
to shoot, a movement, a riot
of that which needs to break the skin
propel itself into the light
a dam breaks or is disassem
-bled & that which was kept behind
the gate runs returns, it is said
the map preserved in the platelets
by a generation far down
stream from its imprint to return
is choreo of rend and build
high dry blues sink under the weight
of night returning to itself
current free and teeming with moon
the body monitors its own
violences takes the measure
of feathered whoop, dripping with feed
of burst pod slipped shelf stripped carcass
—injuries that perpetuate
fill and deflate the coursing blood
scarred skin denotes the tender sites
of rift of burn and a busy
underneath of must there’s nothing
the day does not know about break
