Ride the river | to the polyethylene sea | catch anemones | by the score | Trouble back upriver | tastes of Teflon & rocket fuel | forever chemicals in our blood | Children of Flint Newark Fresno Reno Milwaukee | please stand up | forgive us the heavy | metals in your every | tooth & bone | God Bless America’s | contamination zones | Children of the earth finish your milk | as chalky algal clouds | pollute water bodies | killing krill & fish by the legion | Cousin leviathan | swallow me into your rank church | humid cavern of flotsam & jetsam | Teach me your wild scores | your famous lamentations
Crash the bone house | party of my body | spill the milk of humankind | slick rivers | turning crimson with oil & metal ore | I grieve our reasonable seasons | fires wilding | deluge on the loose | boulders rolling home | You batten hatches for the storm | as I ride the tidal swells | algal cells | raining out the drought parade | Wending in breadlines we taste | germ of the grain | plague of the germ | Let the stunned tongue say | mourning every morning | on these autumn days bright with decay | spores pixelating the wind | fire ants marching on empires of weeds | stars wheeling through their circuits
Hold your hot seat | jagged tongues | polar lobes | I drink from your ablation zones | leaking methane | I touch your lattices | scored with cracks | sheering grinding sluicing | I beg on my knees | halt your manic calving | rewind your ruptures | recall debris from risen acidic seas | oceans swallowing coasts | Mutable beast | resist the sultry air | as your meltwater roves south | shifting the planetary axis | disrupting the Gulf Stream | Carbon dioxide dissolves into the deep water column | stealing ions | corroding the calcium armor of sea snails | & intricate starfish bones | Oh broken chain | begin again
