WORDS

Is there a clear speaking?

Clear strands coming

with wind behind

to get to each other?

I want to be hard in the language

of madness:

parts

trunks

clangs in hands

annihilation in a baby's cry. Please hold

the babies

are speaking

from inside of history

dirt knowledge

layers of dirt knowledge

forgotten to everything

but blood.

Save me

fabrics, grass, glass, turn

off the web.

At any time a person can look up.

At any time the heavens are available for viewing.

Harris Wheeler is the author of the chapbook Dreams from the Grass Stage, which was published in collaboration with a writing collective they are part of called FTP. They host a monthly poetry reading series called Domestic Water in Covington, Kentucky.