American Sonnet

Music: Kelsey Lu/Wanda Coleman/Yves Rothman this is the place where all the lives are planted in my eyes. black things writhe on the ground. red things gush from volcanic gaseous tremblings/ become blood and light mountains of flesh raging toward rapturous seas where crowns of trees inspired by flame extol the night my abysmal hear compels the moon compels wave upon wave. compels reason the tombs are fertile with sacred rememberings. the ancient rhymes. the disaster of couplings. the turbulent blaze of greed’ s agonies. shadows reaching for time and time unraveling and undone. sky river motherβ€” your tongue plunders my mouth