genius senses capture overlapping smeared & dazzling grids
some trails expanding Juarez oceanic from Horizon City
tasted incipient sickness in the mucus produced by a cough

one day you'll say ?you're peering top-down into me?

when the light pollution parking lot cabals

fall asleep in ice-covered cars far from the interstate
a submerged home
a snowbanked lane


the smoke from a house fire
refineries and water pipes

Elizabeth's smog
my friend, I pause to remember you


I gotta root it so you know
that it's human weeping through the dremel tool holes
and shaking like a leaf beneath the covers

even though you hold me
exit for Shore Points
I don't want to go to Spring Lake again

'cause walking in a dream did this evil
that's staying with me


sodium vapor lamps reflect in spin-out strips of black ice
cattails sway in the concrete
the wood smoke transports me

your small human sounds haunt the street
is it a gas leak, the last unity