Friday, March 16, 2018

Kit Kelen #805 - over us all (towards a politics of the sky)


805
over us all

towards a politics of the sky
(thinking of the seven million humans in the world who die from air pollution every year)



when I can still remember
staring clouds apart together

it's here with
up with us

the urgent thing

our ash
and we said souls before

leaf lit
all winged with hallelujah

golden with the deeps of far

and all else long ago
pointed with the way
when here we are

grey on a day
like gathering
feel the pressure in your ears
old bones tell

and just a wisp of beard to show
gods who battle here

you can stretch up into it too

what other animal we are
to take this vacancy for air

cough up

fumes foul and odourless

wash in it
till we all stink

swirls and whirls
and who's to call it?

by all objective means you'd think
the stuff's over us all

I say it will be certain
because I cannot know

your disbelieving suits you
what can you see eyes closed?

as if it all were spoken
days heavy with the dead

three wise monkeys roll into one

and there's a little breeze for love

then when will I be humbled?
and when will I say home?

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