means open summer means temporary means go there someday
I tell my son means naming the sun and wild flower by color burnt
blue means doesn’t exist in nature means tasteless but blue means
camp and war in the body means adhering to doctrine or cause
camp-fever epidemic-fever life-fever never-burnt-down-
fever means endless means as far as the eye can see but what if
the eyes are gone and in their place are flowers means
in their sockets are stones my son a stone in my belly then
my ancestors stones around us means field of stones
is not camp even if camp means field means I have to stop
writing stones carrying throwing burying stones weighing
the body down with what it’s lost
flowers I say camp means field I say it again means
this isn’t my meaning my lager’ lagging stone means what can be
remembered or named means lagged behind means lagend without water
is still a field growing largess to lagrima to grime amalgam
of languages I don’t know what they mean or where they come from
but лагерь means field because field means everything
crammed below the earth means things growing out that were once
pushed down camp means when I pushed my son out of me
I felt I’d birthed a stone
flowers loose in my moleskin brought back from stone fields means
the fields we were pushed out from means the fields we were pushed into
means there is no camp to return to but there is still a field polye
margin square bent brim bound domain range province provide expanse
expanding flat means flat means flattened earth of stones
means stoned bodies or bodied stones means when you hear
Holocaust wholly burnt or burned whole sacrifice by fire burnt
offering caustic whole you don’t hear stones or fields or flowers
mean you don’t hear blue because gone and gray and counted
weigh far more and you don’t hear a name because there are
too many or a body because the same means you hear in plurals
in bodies you imagine them means magnitude and you weigh
how wrong it is to figure them this way their lack or lessening
means them as stones again or still but when my son hears
holy and challah and cost years and years from now hears it
over breakfast with his family perhaps he will hear a field means
the ghost who lingers there means imagine rowing wild
chicory dog violets snow-drops baby blues as far as the eye can see