When I ran to snatch the wires off our roof
hands bloomed teeth shouted I was almost seized
held back from this life
O flumes O chariot reins
you cover me with lurids deck me with gaudies feed
my coronal a scream sings in the air
above our dance you slam it to me with farms
that you dark on and off numb hideous strong friend
Tooma and Geehi freak and burr through me
rocks fire-trails damwalls mountain-ash trees slew
to darkness through me I zap them underfoot
with the swords of my shoes
I am receiving mountains
piloting around me Crackenback Anembo
the Fiery Walls I make a hit in towns
I’ve never visited: smoke curls lightbulbs pop grey
discs hitch and slow I plough the face of Mozart
and Johnny Cash I bury and smooth their song
I crack it for copper links and fusebox spiders
I call my Friend from the circuitry of mixers
whipping cream for a birthday I distract the immortal
Inhuman from hospitals
to sustain my jazz
and here is Rigel in a glove of flesh
my starry hand discloses smoke, cold Angel.
Vehicles that run on death come howling into
our street with lights a thousandth of my blue
arms keep my wife from my beauty from my species
the jewels in my tips
I would accept her in
blind white remarriage cover her with wealth
to arrest the heart we’d share Apache leaps
crying out Disyzygy!
shield her from me, humans
from this happiness I burn to share this touch
sheet car live ladder wildfire garden shrub—
away off I hear the bombshell breakers thrown
diminishing me a meaninglessness coming
over the circuits
the god’s deserting me
but I have dived in the mainstream jumped the graphs
I have transited the dreams of crew-cut boys named Buzz
and the hardening music
to the big bare place
where the strapped-down seekers, staining white clothes, come
to be shown the Zeitgeist
passion and death my skin
my heart all logic I am starring there
and must soon flame out
having seen the present god
It who feels nothing It who answers prayers.