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Watershed and Shield Reminiscence
Amid moonscape railings cognition drained its basin one brother was born on land black from the mine all ventricles sap and terminate a girlish toss of stones into water green from copper welfare sulphur apartment limbs angled and familial as industry these days without antidote tumbling into silt dead and still the water great-grandfather worked the old trap-lines sleek as a grey lip another cadaver lake ground seepage of acids hydrochloric said the railroad into a highway with horses using dynamite to clear the shield a glacier had worn came after the caribou or smoke to crack the sky open this caustic history of moisture a nest for the river his horse fell down its bank into a shattered femur before the caribou metabolic alleys diverged into currents and embryos crack the sky into a filter of words mutagenic nothing for the horse but the dynamite placed it lit within its mouth empathic demolition Lux sucrose norepinephrine below the sole blinking traffic light in the centre whether our engine of the possible? asked this atomic history of silt in the watershed of town an elder amputee from the farthest reserve this lift of waves recurrent from this shed all water flows north placed his last hand on my brow called upon Gitchi Manitou in a memory of sleep where I am four and falling through each level of a house: there are four corners piles of clothes carpets of old smoke a staircase mummified placenta brittle slightly flaking a soft drift to when the cement floor signals to secure my exit from poverty awakening