Genius senses capture overlapping smeared and dazzling grids Some trails expanding Juarez oceanic from Horizon City Tasted incipient sickness in the mucus produced by a cough One day you'll say "you're peering top-down into me" When the light pollution parking lot cabals Fall asleep in ice-covered cars far from the interstate A submerged home A snow banked lane The smoke from a house fire Refineries and water pipes Elizabeth's smog My friend, I pause to remember you
I gotta root it so you know That it's human weeping through the dremel tool holes And shaking like a leaf beneath the covers Even though you hold me Exit for Shore Points I don't want to go to Spring Lake again 'cause walking in a dream did this evil That's staying with me Sodium vapor lamps reflect in spin-out strips of black ice Cattails sway in the concrete The wood smoke transports me Your small human sounds haunt the street Is it a gas leak, the last unity