Porta Poems #42

FASTER THAN LIGHT

a kiss in cleared dark Appalachia
on your parents creaky front porch
under the hum of healing power
lines needs no sun to continue

is it them
our want be
one century two traumas
soft love havoc wrought

quarter moon half-in half-out
of Earth’s jukebox slot
takes time to be of a mind
to pick the ripe song

let us pause
dignify our work
the many deaths of natures
felled like enemies

return of the wormy American chestnut
silky offal planed bare
did we have to nail other nameless grains
sharp inviting fruits extinct too

ball up needless seed
human condition
use it for kindling
ink disease

to be light
maps need not
nor ramps
nor morels

we get there when we get there
we photons there already
we everywhere at once
we yawn and laze and hubris

want be truly numinous
naked
nothing
darkness

for the light took its time
to cut your shadow down
for the light mistook mine
as its own

how sad to be a shimmery son
and have only your own light reflected
rather a daughter darkly
and give rise to many undetected

we dark daughters masculine
laugh all glory metaphorical
even unlimited light
has its limits

be not fair
mirrors break them axes too
yet there never was a symmetry
in cleared dark Appalachia