To depart the living, days before sunrise, climbing rungs through tired rain // drenched,
submerged, drown and suffer, racing demons, tumbling // jacob’s ladder, slingshot ether, space
and its silence, its contradictory warmth // earth and its darkness, its deepest refusal, its collection
of planets, its mighty debris // its essential goodness, its essential nothingness, its vile
institutions, its practical waste // its endless approvals, its consecutive minutes, exchange of
orbits, castaway // its networks and maps, its godly logistics, its mounds of waste, its recitations
// its schematics that tell us nothing, its descriptions that efface meaning, its categories of unity,
its redeeming hatred // vectorizing emptiness, measuring infinity, scheming for salvation,
vomiting analysis // coupling with outcomes, guaranteed certainty, rush and stimulation, effect
and cause // assembling evidence, assaulting the judge, insisting on guilt, pardoning angel //
exchange of information, elegant damnation, tearful departure, nonchalance // victimizing
heaven, its towering landfills, its prestige and institutions, its sequential events // devouring its
contents, peaceful and mighty, its expendable perfection, its digestible grace //
Spooky Edition · Poetry