Vestpocket Grave for Mendez, verdito, 11th & A
for Jeff Wright
I look for whatever bits of green
and down them for whatever bit of good they do me.
This garden, about to die, salutes you.
Asymmetrically.
We come here for the burial of the brownest dirt.
Rooting up uneven leaves, not equidistant.
The unforgiving isosceles replaces them, will be the
mausoleum of this small, ridiculous garden. Seek equidistance.
The locust-dozers will come, their noise. The diggers.
Unshakeable foundations guerdoned by the right of law, not
common sense.
Tell me what animal legislates against its medium as we have done
green air. Show me the codex.
Fishes of the sea, form schools, teach to preach the draining of
the sea.
A building, walls of unknown thickness, is your gravestone,
silly garden. Incorporated in its plan some small new
lack of air to breathe.
Where will I go when I have green hunger? Farther, fewer.
What happens to the dirt, packed and buried? White roots,
nudging like blind moles.
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