dummy

in a fight
that was some fight, first falling then
tumbling, a spear and axe
(where you wanted a ship built out of
the lifted)

flotilla - river - berms
the fire had a devastating quality

to forget
ribbing to be calm you remember
eating the flame on a lance

there its eyes were

licking you,
licking you,
as if some
one before you maybe had betrayed
the leaves

stripped them bare and
said it’s OK
stripped them bare
and said

and said…

did it say

you are a feather-
you, stay light
stay

stay because the saying itself is not so,
the ground itself is not so

?

and the ground beneath you, was it so good