late luminescence

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,