Oasis_v4
Part 1
Imagine the desert reversed.
A waste of water
that squeezes your own
right out of your skin.
So desperate for a speck of sun
you see lights down there.
Images warm and dry
places only that land is.
The desert is
an ocean’s carcass
evaporated into
an un-urnable pile.
The sun bears on it
mobius mauling
mountains past
into sand that slinks
in clocks
slowing the bleached vista’s
development in your dark [...]
v2_Bananafish : Banana :: I :
[Read " Bananafish is to banana as I am to ]
Everything
I didn’t know
I swallowed;
hook, line, sinker,
fishing rod, fishing man,
boat, ocean, continents,
the world,
our galaxy,
the universe.
I washed it down with a Jesus Malbec
and ate the rest of God for dessert.
God is omni-sweet,
omni-flavors must be saviored
They went down much easier than I did,
biting off the unfamiliar parts
of yourself [...]
