What bliss inside chicken legs
nude in the freezer. What wisdom
in the TV noise
not on normal channels. What pain
in the statue of a cheek tumored disease saint
consciousness in dream foam
scraped in a foam scrape.
What ruins do we share
inside the blood behind your tooth, inside
a chardonnay faceblast, sour straw candy.
Cuts on your brain are the wrong shortcuts
cut luminous shrimp cut
straight to bad awakening
a bridge to a gate in a shallow green pool
Kadosawabashi Station: over-
world station, earth gate.
Vessel of the rocks by the off-white spires.
What ticket brought me here, what will take me back.
What noodles bore doorways
into endless house lined streets. What waters
unmapped; dust and must rise shadow
thread by thread reborn
dark house, childhood carpets.
Rice bowls await insects drowning in swamps.
Let that child go somewhere. Where?
What am I supposed to do?
Waxing & Waning: A Literary Journal
A print and online literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, screenplays, plays, art, graphic stories, & short films by April Gloaming Publishing.