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  • absorbent heart, and: witness
  • Roberto Harrison (bio)

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

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.

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