& in Open, Marvel. Felicia Zamora
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The branches salvage. The Vs;
the Vs greater-than, less-than the sky
& what is gray heavies
in the lack of light, in the pupils
wanting horizon to look back, & long.
What illuminates just before dark.
What we call a season, because we must
call something up the throat, the epiglottis
vibrates above the slope of the tongue,
attached. What something
must we offer back
to the swirl, the hemispheric homeland—bound
in pirouette. Our spines knowing we are
in dance. Our minds chant stability. A feather
tufted in feathers. Before Vs, there were beaks. A singular beak
points. An instinct is a direction. You smell the flurry
before the flake. & barren is intermittent:
a season is stacked moments
melting through our mouths caught in capture.
Always a wait within a gasp. An entrance
in lips gaped apart. You taste
dried leaves on your pallet & a promise
of warmth to tend the frost, to take the low bow
where sleep peels at the inside of a thing—
say ‘hibernate’ here. To burrow in something other
than self. Say ‘what continues to adapt.’ Say ‘inclement.’ Stay
still in a thought; cloak a word
over the mouth spool. Understand, you will be let go.
Alone at the Lake
How often your mind mirrors the lake,
surface frozen, mid ripple.
What was once water
rips from sand at the seam—
to be unstitched; bits of you
scatter & resemble seeds
dried & un-sowable. Beyond shore
depths teem. What keeps
a body held in? Sewn breath
of January wrinkles thoughts
here—where buoys strew
float-less & sad—a crime
scene in wait of discovery.
You want to believe
a shore may stretch forever,
guarded circumference of self
looping in & around a body
immobilized; the amygdala
disobeys dormancy, streams
memory without consent.
& you say “undone” & “regret”
as part of language the cerebral cortex
muddled out of nothing
to understand, and yet—an echo
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