Percussion, detonation, abruptness
of wood cracking: fire, so cold
snap; tactile introject, as dowel
breaks in its plug, never clean off,
tatters and strands, jags and daggers,
glass dropped on tiles, a book;
intratelluric anticipation: to plant
a brace of sheoaks along the driveway,
hoping for others’ ancestors
to speak to us? Validate?
Snap lock, lever action,
bolt driven home: collapse
of reredos where we worshipped,
kids playing up in the huddle of pews;
clasp of Bible: titubation from weekend’s
tension, tremulous window: you don’t
write out faultlines and move on…
worshippable tenderised metal,
staring out at crows on dead trees:
twisters of faith, over-identified
to take us out in that impact
so sickly-sweet, drawn out: zoanthropy.
Percussion, detonation, abruptness,
rush out on all fours, wind
in fur, jowls slopping, teeth bared.
Crack, smash, shatter: exasperate.
Hands shape to brace the face
when the damage mitigates
through knees: prayer-shaped
to fall less further than taxonomy.