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Breaking and warming, breaking, warming,
warming, breaking, warming, warming, and breaking,
warming, breaking, warming, warming, and breaking,
but I had to put some of this in other words
or you’d be able to see past the sound
that the whole page was breaking and warming
and probably, as I do, feel that now
you might look away, having sensed the combination
but left the lock alone. I understand and ask,
what else do you want me to say,
sunset light in the broad of day,
three years to the hour since we watched
a total solar eclipse, in the zone of totality,
it’s ominously and endearingly named.
I speculate from the rumor of my mind
that this bright and slightly orange spill
of starlight on the temporary ground
through a bank of clouds is different
due to the fire ablaze in mountains
one village away. Here I’d thought
maybe we’ll be spared, not by grace
but luck and decent protocol:
“first glue,” it means, proto-kolla,
the matter pasted first,
before the eyes get going.
We the species who prepares
to book it. (Waking, there’s a bon
voyage, coming to one’s own feet.)
From an end called the beginning
to the other, can I say it yet? —
breaking, warming in a strange gloam,
breaking, warming in a strange gloam,
warming, breaking, basking,
breaking, heating, overheating, frozen,
wet — a warning of breaking, warming
a ball of Earth, the nerves early
and last, the middle numb-inert,
attached and indifferent to the loss,
attached and then alert to the loss
of time that was superfluous.