Becomes a decisive body.
Acts on its ends,
which is to say
hands, like cloves,
budding flat.
Cuts a water-wheel
from its body,
a jenny wheel,
Catherine wheels.
It is coastline and,
as such, sheet lightning
issuing in fragile exodus
and armada. Question
what seems less devolved:
flowers wed to hands,
etymologies, stony acts
of will or fate.The center
unravels no more easily
than a stone:
it spreads in leaves,
it erases itself in
strands of brilliance,
it unlocks in florets
through the reflective blackness.
from We Are PharaohFind more by Robert Fernandez at the library
Copyright © 2011 Robert Fernandez
Used with the permission of Canarium Books.