Monumental Silence
here in the coldest water
where the soil parts ways
and the drowned mammal
eyes stare ceaselessly
we are winnowed
we are justified
perfected in
strangled lime
i didn’t want to be
your epitaph
i resisted memory
and ran from red tablets
while a howl broke from the deep
and spilled the battered sky and
called through watchful desert holes
there is only so much time