night void message #3
the
velocity of the road among
the granite
&
the more old-fashioned in the backseat
because
someone else is driving a light
from
another coast someone left
the
potatoes boiling during vacation
a
few spots on the stove someone
else’s
son & his right wing opinions
you
don’t know his
mother
with
her 50’s glasses while
she
tries to reason with him
the
older villages seen
from
the windows passing
night void message #5
after the party you were wearing
someone else’s coat you put
your hands in the pockets & you said
I hate it when people keep their dust in coat pockets
night void message #7
wandering in the country of my youth a kind of wilderness undramatic without signposts here & there an encampment a lantern hanging from
a sleeping bag on the
fallen wandering together & then separately so that I was looking for you without knowing how everything is a long way off when
you don’t know where
you’re going qué camino tan
largo encountering my father oddly, without any particular
hostility or affection either looking for you finding
my daughter as always, very much herself full of energy a sudden surge of love & without
signposts
looking
for you
night void message #19
in a foreign country unnamed
in an underground restaurant
the light a glow ascending the walls
I am eating spinach pie
& you are also eating
something green two small
loaves of bread dark &
mummy shaped like the statues
along the walls the same rough
texture & color I break
open the loaf inside a small
potato & inside the potato
grapes now we are traveling
by balloon over the night
city when we land you say
thank you for waiting for
me
night
void message #51
looking
down into the dark staircase & reaching for the light switch
a
woman’s voice from below
why
do you want to do that?
night void message #59
the waterfall in the lobby some
kind of business meetings
&
& more a thriller a subtext no one
understands seeing into the
closed room the man puts the cat
on the woman’s naked back
& she replies ‘I am a
human’
