over the ground
matter
laid down by
abstract bodies
some known
to us
as mothers
whose giving
now is rendered
ineffable nowhere concrete
like the potential for birth
of children
from concrete wombs
or as fathers recalled but
whose powers
now are decomposed
to bacterial potencies
of future men, women and
all of those clinging to inner
vestments like passengers
hanging off bone-hooks
in the walking, love-making hulks
of a people to come
over the ground of stones
world of stones the teeth of
sorting operations
conveyors of scree down vast
mountains to the mouths of valleys
stones carried by water
water the agent
universal solvent
and wind in the silica
sand currents
air movements delicate
pliable lifting one
solitary particle
and convulsions in the rock
springing out of magma
skin-like shreds
a molten blackening surface
from the furnace of creatures
everything burns
over the ground of shells
glass smoothed
a plastic anatomy
the husk rubs the placenta
the solid fluid
discrete powder
the soup of life
in the soup of more-than-life
grinding water to atoms
tears lost
all holding-together
passing in
all lasting
loss
over the ground
risen I am one
salt grain of all the
ocean of all
tongues one word
on its sky-kissed
cheek swimming
under star scatter
scintillant
