Nirvana

Denial: broken half-mooring
opens/shuts, letting in
light or sealing it back
in again. Reversal:
memory sustained, acrid,
pungent with time,
drifting/staining/stinking.

Rusty like old crows,
cackling or waiting to rot away,
hypertensing for the minute,
hypofencing for the hour,
kneeling/verbalizing
ochre dreams in grungy
monotone like lithium.

Filtered silence or
lonely crosses in the field
beneath mixed media skies --
vaporous/coexisting/a tad noxious.