Three Poems

Kevin Holden

SIMULIIDAE

that would

ever on the surface

ever expanding / of the world—

black fly horse fly

star black & prismatic

eye, that would

be a code

ever inturning move to

the animal moving

unthought, on the surface—

fly out in exponential hum

rattle out

the brain cup

green metal

sheen at the splitting

discus, for cold

skeletal drink at the warm

body, & buzz in the rotating

hollow of the instant

& see ultraviolet

wings tesseracting the spectra

beyond

to unfollow

green variations, buffalo

gnat lying fallow to unfold

the brain

or hover—

in some air

MIRROR

that would be

humans moving

& what, to be human?

& what, to see that or care

the difference spreading

that is, dot variations pixels

in zirconia

no one would say to watch that

other humans moving on a screen

they

interest us

or, bodies / language

that would be, a memory

of that place

nonhuman row through the trees

following the

other animals

to hold a green object

moving through the north

& up & up

towns & ice

the poor, the railroad, the wood, the lakes

dark animals

& move under glass pieces

how much, say down shaft blond

the jay curving in, meanly

phoning

string code farther for a green window

& hold the wire

a talking bird

URSUS ARCTOS

& black glass

reflection

in snow’s bank, hedged in—

to think

the animal’s thought

unthought—bear in the blizzard

tracks immediately

covered by snow, endlessly thickening—

not-you to say

or feeling, outside the

horizon of time &

the colored lights aurora

mind to unravel the cave of winds

shadow the city in the bear’s mind

glyph pattern 2-D hunter

fall falling fall

sinking in 20 names

to touch

the lens of the

boundary inside the boundaries

& stagger unaware

under hexagons