Playing Fall Guys During Quarantine / Ignorance Re: Biology

when you simply practice jumping into the ether
how far a fall on the blue loading screen
populating populating’s the same as propagating though
plants are more open about their love
of biology terms a pistil for the open mouths of fields
a wide-eyed tree growing slowly into its new
language each leaf a new word drifting
onto another continent -- a spade to shift its meaning
unbound by any green traditions unspoken
inside the framework of a species already dead
yet looking forward to its future

Cashing Out

White plate spinning
on the head of summer
god: boredom

in the breath of grass
illusion, green
in brain, in wiles, wet-

rag fingertips pressed
against nose, sanitation
breath, crater of spirit, the

less mortal, the mightier
morals, if what you have
is less than you entered.

Anytown, USA

this country music’s gunshots slinging through the wind wrapped around Anytown, USA where I’ve never been anywhere outside my own mind traveled everywhere within this bag of skin and blood bound to family I become further and further away from each day I bleed out my own legacy owned by money by the river by the body bags I see everywhere I see a witness