from Jawbone Reserve to Fleming’s Pool tide has
left tributes & signs Banded Ark Jackson’s Trough
Elongate Nut carbonate tracks of where you were
last night I walk my bones between shells & skulls
crunching the dead wondering always how much
does it hurt to leave such things behind what was he
pulled from dear Little Globe a loving wife with
concentric smile an umbo median life where was
Wing when I needed him was she raped Boring
Venus & if so why once I collected saltwater holds
hobbity homes tiny gods cut from Aiz Ghazal lime
this was at 4 am this was before the Romans arrived
half the world at war even then you smuggled me
into a southern coast cove kissed me with kisses of
bubbles & foam left your handprint right here on
my breast I could only see death I can only see
death as I pick my way between ocean & crust the
beach a necropolis Altona just ahead in the mist
rising with turrets & obelisks I am searching for
you in churches & mosques grinding great cities
under my feet into something like gypsum like dust