Grassland Futures, Desert Dreams 1

Grasslands, no wilds

agitation then day 

gray umber the sky

and bleached 

            as bones

            as the body in continual farewell

            a reprisal

so turn and admit again

each gesture an admission

of how eons elapse

indifferent of our 

attention

in spring time no difference

utter vastness with your spine

the human integer speaks likewise

periodically, with antecedents

life anywhere and across 

such plains is–move

in blonde light

in rushes

in no breeze

in its churn

announce a human empathy

((all we want is to address the day

mother distance

father light

are we now 

unified here

in our efforts–  

to speak with, 

to not comprehend

to build is 

to mount intentions

I gather the daylight

its grassvoice in paper knots and folds

can you hold true to

a seemingly infinite span

civilizational

uttered into the land

with remnants

do all beginnings climb upwards

individually

gathered together in a swarm

transforming even the sky’s reach

into a blank arrow

a cry