Past Tense

by: panopticpants

Sun Apr 04, 2010 at 05:01:40 AM MST

smoke on the porch
an infinite span of finite land.
bee devils buzz and huzz
beneath your quarters,
flaring out - yellow and black
the becoming blue sky -
"Water Tower." and birds and birds
sing sing span of wings differences
disappear at this hour.
huzz of the Queen buzz.
Her desolation and infinite grace?

Come out and hear see
before the blasted sun rises
Come out and hear see
before I can see you,
covered in animal, gunting
all the shovels and all the ditches
the "necessary"
hunches at every skyline balks
to put the bees away and be waking
Being, only. bark and
these eerie leaves huss the wind
will verb you. "Cabrini Green"
uh-oh. They sought to spread us
out where we could not hear her
but only see. Of a certain Order.
The Empire's stench tucked
into Fulton Market, pig and fish
guts splayed in hot art district.
Or tricked out on 95th and State.

span of wings differences
disappear at this hour.
gut check gouged by Time
come out before the disassembly
line tears into heart
this muted belief
that we could be