The Air is Thick As A Tongue
the piano has pumpkins growing through its teeth,
rivers of cats in bags, broken brick foundations catfish and weeds.
The piano is asleep, dreaming of parking-lot gulls, of trashheaps and bonfires
the teeth of elephants, of iron nails, it is a logjam in a river, and the silence piles up.
The birdcage has a doll in it
and maybe...