A Crown of Dust

(a cento)


8

What does it mean to be rootless?

ragged sheep
huddled in the rain

Now the empty frames, the cream of margins
in the way no frame can minimize nor contain horizon

I never feel so alive as when I am

the eye of God is planted between my brow

a blue river flowed above me at night
what if it's loneliness that keeps me alive

That's why I'll never go back

We see around things when we're seeing well

The thing about instability is we rarely see it

we could wake up under the right pattern of stars.
We're skilled at living in the ruins of our cities.



Line sources:
Jane Wong, Damir Sodan, Jenny Xie, David 
Maduli, Youna Kwak, Ashley M. Jones, 
Matthew Zapruder, Amorak Huey, Brynja
Hjalmsdottir, Matthew Cooperman, 
Rachel Sierra, Ewa Lewis, Carmen Calatayud