I emerged as if through a narrowed eye
into lashes of white sun from your apartment
and pollen clouds held absent sound

in gutted buildings we pray bridges and causeways
curl fast again like slap bracelets
and the skyline resets to a bare, hushed wilderness



I worship the day of the invisible wave

then a stream of revenants surged outward
like prominences from the sun
1927 an explosion

another Tunguska



and at once I was flat on my back
my skateboard rolled on down the hill
the congregating deer stood stock still

in the corridor of manicured lawns



remember you and I would get so high
we'd pass out with our shoes on
first light through leaves



this was back when my smoke would juke

and stutter in the highway crossbreeze