cold

The lake is cracking like gunshots again.

A professor once told my class that humans feel most at ease in their homes when they are on a hill, facing water.  

to be a pigeon on a mosque

to be a dove on a cathedral

to be a goose in the gale, crying for my fa-mi-ly

oh to be a gull 

oh, oh to be a gull to be a gull to be a 

gull gull gull

to be a cigarette, spent, out the carwindow

a decapitated snake! of sparks!

this is my body it

wants to be alive see it is

healing itself

may i please, may i please if you don't mind

i'd like to touch 

i will be reverent and emotional

i will treat things

with proper reverence and emotion

just promise you won't look me

in the eyes

i spook easy

is all

it's fine to not matter

if it's not at all