Benjamin Henry

Window

1.      I look out from a view
        not including myself
        except one shoulder,
        two hands, a lap -
        I feel hair -- imagine a
        reflection,     faintly:

Apples creating caterpillar webs,
shreds, spillage
semen strewed about the room,
I declare necessary
-something-
specific presentation, ode(or)
intimate,
a frost would/could no closer touch
nimbly, nimbly
                follow close
          imagine fallow fodder,
                simplicity --
                wave form(at) [and]
                         boca-mouth-art
        suspension
                         tongue-checked
                        (So I am)

whipped, snap, attack, flow,
angry me to(o) lean close [if ever]
I knew : the distance!
Shimmering like lightning, striking
notes of discord unsounded,
traced in [white] light,
outlined by a deep, blue sky.

II.     I know this reflection
        must not end, I allow
        her purification smoke
        to cleanse.

C.      frozen lattice clings
        to smooth surface,

        tumbling, trembling,

        watching the sky for power
                surges, melting heat-
        the pot handle,
                        boiling steam,

        (visible.)


Tomorrow.

Grant it, darn it, grant it,
wait for the apocalypse, forgotten,
those outdoor elements fixed,
the cement holds their path-rail,

trodden, crowded,
I look for an exit sign,        glowing,
                                glowering
redAngryMad
                                above me,
                                over the
                                doorway...

I do not notice the people dash by,
they are running from crumbling ruins,
toward the forest, taking the highway,

(umber midden, streamy, teary-eyed,
lash beaten, frogged, stampede!;)

-call out for that echo-

-wait for its return-