Sunday, October 27, 2019

KA Rees #30 - Breath without trees


Breath without trees

spooled in blankness
I turn, like turning
on a light. I can't
smell the chemical process
that changed these trees.
Now I write and it is
here,
in documented space
between being
uploaded
and published it does not
exist, unlike the cold metal bit
you move in your mouth
between teeth.
I breathe,
the air is only sometimes
free and sometimes it feels rare
and you don’t think
how much you hate the office. The way it drags
down both sides of your day
the endless dreary dust caught in the carpet
like degraded flotsam on the shore.
Already we live with the end of the world
and we are not sure about breath without trees,
a white feather spins and spirals and rocks downward surrounded 
by a hundred falling leaves.

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