photo: Identity Logan Park, Berkeley (12/14/23)
say hunger.
hunger, hunger, hunger.
it is the u, a cup to be held to the sky,
stretches itself wide and wider
until flat.
land, doormat,
blanket, horizon
the groan of the g suspended in the back of my throat,
a jury waiting, craving, perhaps in vain,
the openness of the mouth in saying want.
to conquer, to step on,
to cover, to kneel on
say hunger, hunger, hunger
and watch. ivy, envy,
primality. the apple and puddle
sing to tantalus.
what wants to consume
is consumed
to be filled in,
full,
with dreams of the lovelier,
the safer, the freer. truer, bluer, newer,
said promise me more.
brimming with an empty, a bile,
a graceless acid. angular elbows mimic
what is sharply hollow,
rolls around your stomach
ungrateful.
sloshing.
