Published in wild Roof Journal #5
Liquid surges slowly through pipe imagining
a drum that beats the drumming of rain
on a ramshackle roof as heavy as lead as heavy
as iron that heats and melts transforming
into the quicksilver intensity of steel that melts
again in a carbon unraveling. a desperation of sickness
a sadness of endings forgotten before they began
liquid pumped sluggishly through vein a steel
and glass receptacle a flash of needle of
underpinning a stranglehold on fabrication
in a world of markets a global exchange
a mercantile release a downpour of morphine
enriched with oxygen and the smell of rain
after months of heat such sweet release
liquid spurts suddenly as mechanism is activated
the balm propelled across an ocean to the waiting
hungry to the starving faithful a towering world
of glass and steel of hatred and capital of thirst
for solutions but embezzlement awaits in this time
of fever and detonation this final paroxysm
as you lift your weakening arms up to the sky.
