#1258 - archipelago

 

1258

12.vi.23

4.164

archipelago

for the dream journal

 

everywhere was nowhere once

now everyone’s trying to meet up

 

that’s why the crush

no one’s to blame

 

who could anyone know in this crowd?

it’s a city

 

some try to break off

maybe they want to be found

 

it all began with just getting away

safe distances, the brochure

 

they too come into the swirl

the streets indoors, the indoors out

 

no longer eye to eye

no one’s listening now

 

it’s skin and the skins come off

people are climbing into each other

 

people are climbing out

call it cannibal, ever thus

 

it has to be dreamt before it is done

that’s just how to happen

 

nor is it all or only rudeness

some distance is required to show

 

the courtesy of furthest

yes, come here to get away

 

hold steady on an orbit till

though orbits all decay

 

you’ll say ‘no one could have known till now’

and ‘just the way things are’

 

and then a friend

face hardly matters

 

it’s thus we see these creatures, ours

made of just spent light