Shimmer tucked behind a yearning—
faces of strangers on familiar footpaths,
benches.

Some frown, burrow into pockets,
handbags, buses, and
age concern, kids kicking the tills.
A hand in lost goods, a river crossing,
a bike in the stones.

They take and they take and they take and they take—
they take.

Till death on the stairwell of a house party.

So ka whawhai tonu mātou—
ake, ake, ake...
ake, ake, ake.

Go as far as you can drive on a tank of gas,
taking the gravel road so it kicks up and spits
in the sideways rain, the everywhere rain, the anywhere sky.
Close your eyes at the brink of eclipse.

To see a red jaguar in a garage,
doors barricaded,
a note that says:

"I have no intention whatsoever
to harm myself."

Yet the crunch of autumn begins again,
and oh—
the joy of finding white rose petals
at the bus stop.

it's here again
the thick ache of winter
weight of remembering

a hibernating panic
cracked hull of the seed
the Fourth season

a strange winter in the desert
hearts painted in rose madder dye
your laughter clinging like
roots of the Ghaf tree

water, water below
waste not what can grow

sand sweeping across the sand
sand sweeping across the sand

Seasons of idolism, eyes down
Tidal motion of extinctions
In and out, in and out,
Faster, faster

Borne from asymmetry
The present moves
Now towards the median
Aggregation of experience

When can I grow into
The shell of what was

Collecting rain drops
In a glass outside my window

Lived this life too many times
Seen it all, cascading minds

You don't see what I see,
You don't see what I see

Have I given it all away?
Have I given it all?

Another fall, another time
Another fall, another time

Archeangel, cindering pheonix
impartial to idols, diguises
want burning want

point at difference,
crisis proxy
of accumulation

swim out to sea,
swim out to sea

fractured, vacant
shooting ghosts in the dark

"The text is typical. It's like a speech whose units mold like a dropping of a secretion. And since he is here a glottic gesture, work on oneself of the language, the element
                                                                         It is the saliva that also sticks units to each other. The association is a sort of slimy contiguity, never a reasoning or symbolic appeal; the goop from the hazard makes sense, and progress pace by small tremors, grasping and suctions, veneer - in every sense - and slippery *******. In the mouth or along the column. "