"The soul has an absolute, unforgiving need for regular excursions into enchantment.
It requires them like the body needs food & the mind needs thought."
There's water everywhere,
leaking from the creaky floorboards
landing on the ceiling. Droplets from the
wood-gashes
fill my cup-like palms with ashes
open to the damp
steel-refined works of
the spitting seas. The moon
vacates the now-swollen building,
with teary-eyes unwiped from the
cloth-clouds --
no pity for the forgotten swarming electrolytes
as they chant relief & manifest their brief
consolations to the chief.
I encircle pools amidst the puddle-lake
of furniture-ketones & languish-laden walls.
We lament the fire
hosed by the moist prospect:
There's water everywhere.
& we'll tell them of how
the moon was here, the sun & the stars too
but all this water: it choked the stars,
put out the sun & drove the moon to its misery.
Once we had a heatwave; the waves ate the heat.
Now we're left with the waves
that are nightly fervour.
Once we had celestial bodies; then all these bodies piled up
In the terminal waves.
& very long ago, we had a moon.
He left, forlorn, to find somewhere new.