Dissolve by Sherwin Bitsui

Author:Sherwin Bitsui
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2018-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Radio waves groan

under ashen dragonflies

when you polish irradiated triggers

  with scalped hair.

Sage and creosote

coat the withers of spray-painted horses.

New suns sizzle from slits  in their golden flanks.

In our cornfields,

piled waist high,

swept from clan melt

then steeped in bear grease—

relocated hyphens pollinate

headaches with blurred visions.

Father’s dying ceased

when he refunded this ours

for fused hands plaster-coated

  in a glottal stop’s brief paralysis.

Pinpricked holes for eyes,

reversible teeth hemmed in copper thread,

polished brow bone swiveling

through trimmed hedges—

  he atrophies this aftermath,

   its highest frond withering on maps

   that dreamed our shadows waterlogged.

He then howls a constellation of anchors

flung at blue birds pausing midflight

where pewter wind

   creaks shut over a raft’s hesitation.

He explains the sun,

not carried by horse

but a ceiling lamp

flickering on our computer screens.

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