- absorbent heart, and: witness
absorbent heart
your values aren’t rightfor this ageor memory
color line. globesof the Seasurvive revelation
as the Moon reflectsits own interiorrevolver. I live
as a condemnedcallused bodyunder salt water sand, far from your destructions. where are
the people of the lost (shut out the hate)arc, in a service (love so remote)to more water? worn
eclipse of a humanemergence, foils of the barricadea face speaks
from isomorphic fernslines of sacrificeburn the god of a naked mammal
I am the Loon“the silence of ourbeautiful consciousness”
“in love with everythingyou make it impossible to be myself in thisplace. where can I go?” – Baraka
attentive scorefor the coreof death: black, red, and white in the morning
an expansive heart [End Page 227] absorbs all the evila veil of the world
and cancelsthe Loon’s emptysubmergence
for more of the deepcurrents of the light’sdarkest refuge. I am the Loon
I hunt with blood in my eyes
I wander in the morningand float abovethe wound fish of the spirits [End Page 228]
witness
see itunknown
I walk for the darkmorning, what isknown to waking?
forward
witness
a fold of impermanencemarks the ride through itand it is dark, dark for a river
as you see
you see the markof known things
of known thingshere by the river
where light arrivesimpossibly reflective
where light arrivesimpossibly known.
I seethat rivers become me
to drownand live for water
I seethat the oceans mark the seaswith noise
to make planets wanderin tiny shadows [End Page 229] light
I seethat the trees arriveto reflectwhat is dual in meto see othersand give
to see othersand to betogether
as I sleepherewith you
it is night
it will be morning [End Page 230]
Roberto Harrison is the author of Os (subpress, 2006), Counter Daemons (Litmus Press, 2006), bicycle (Noemi Press, 2015), culebra (Green Lantern Press, forthcoming 2015), Bridge of the World (Litmus, forthcoming 2017) as well as many chapbooks. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his wife the poet Brenda Cárdenas.