LUNGS
Everything feels like butter
Butter churning
soft warm
like lungs
Can you perfect
perfection?
//
Like a collection
of books —
a series
//
Does time exist without you,
You,
expendable,
expandable
belly of breath?
You hold on tight to the wallet -
The dime
I tend the laundry
To wring the towels
To wring out the water
To wring the germs away
Like a spinal twist
To meet over zoom
To feel connection in a vacant room
Churning like butter
Like tucking the tailbone, like
Feeling the feet on the
ground
How plants always live like this —
How they breathe with ease and dance in the breeze
How they soak up the sun
churning
vitamins &
minerals
Grinding them in their teeth
drinking in water droplets
not afraid to
open
their mouths
to
stretch--------———————————————stretch--------—————————————stretch
their skin
to the sun
to face the mountain
to graze their neighbors hand…
Who cares if my leaf touches your leaf!
Let’s beckon the sun together
Let’s breathe In deep
Let’s pursue our dreams
In pursuit of them -
Of giving them a go!
What if my cactus spine fucks up your alibi?
What if it mangles
into the
soft tissue
of your stem,
your plant heart,
your waterways
Your deep green.
Would Olivia still sleep on the ottoman and shoot love into the air if I wasn’t there?Would her eyes still open and close like soft kisses, little lids, fighting to stay awake?
To see me
To feel me
To be together
For this
grain of sand
worth of time
This small hiccup
This moment now
Of stillness
Of oneness
Of collide
And unite again.
Cutting soft butter, how easy it is.
can you feel it?
butter like fat on the hips
the ribs
tiny pieces between marrow.
thick cut butter.
my back pain feels like a cough
like congestion
like many tiny clogs
like butter clogs
like phlegm
like scorpion sting
Can your back have a cough?
mine does.
Can eating a chip cause a divorce?
it can,
during Corona
it almost happened to me.
i almost divorced him.
how could he eat that chip
after
touching
the grocery store
shopping cart?
how?
how?
how?
back to backs made of smooth butter
back to backs made of coughs and phlegm
I dream of tsunami
They say emotion
Is represented by water in dreams
They say i am running away from my emotions,
Turning my back on them
and that’s the
scorpion in my spine
Like a motionless
ocean
and the
ocean
needs
waves
how do emotions turn motionless?
[how ironic]
it is
to see your body
showing you
your tendencies -
your hips don’t lie, ya know?
you know.
i know, you know, girl
guuurl
goyal
garl
grrr
GRR!
Growling
like Lion’s breath
like hungry
like letting go of disease.
we tape reminders on our door now
wash everything;
wash
hands,
shoes,
clothes,
wash hair,
fingernails,
underneath the toes,
wash ear drum,
breathe only through the
nose.
gloves, mask, sanitizer---check, check, check (check again)
How many lists do you need to exit the building?
To enter the home?
What happens if you forget?
Do you have to do push-ups?
Jumping jacks?
Will you get all of the blame?
What happens
if you get sick -
and then
give it
to the
person you love -
do they get to say,
I told you so...about the chip?
the mother fucking chip.