Thursday, September 4, 2025

Voltage Terrain



Before 
high beams
at evening,
when dirty
desert streets 
make your mind
the only
available light ...


~


Kurt Vonnegut's
look-a-like, always
asleep in the room, 
died of pills

we were told


Twenty-two miles ran
away as summer flared

When blind bus driver
passed on by
my aurora took personal

Details of towers
growing more fine
A trucker stop
at Central Library

loading Alexandrian muses

Peaks of the Papago
red sandstone, pock-marked, 
once a holy higher ground
now helicopter overlords
hover overhead & overheated

High noon breaks
into the Valley stone cold sober
& the hazy dome of white shine 
shields rising temperatures
feeding visceral exhaustion, thirst

Clown car fathers
& firearm mothers
tore down adobe caches,
illiterate drivers mad on gas,
roofs made of mesquite beams,
replacing it all with joyride matrices,
concrete to waste, incorporated

First moon of June,
a sermon before the storm,
making Duck Dynasty 
role-motto crusty Christ,
lower vibration particle plasma
winning the argument

Same old grueling message
demanding automaton zeal
running again to softcore pawn,
winds of history to the back ...
Sunday's reliever never delivers

~

Grid fabricate. Stick short-ended.
Indian School Road bus
busted, income tax bunkered,
Maryvale cancer cluster,
dusted Conestoga shopping
carts, broken hoses, drones,
big boxes taco-laying those
who lost World War Three
long long long time ago

~

Violence silenced
Music & motion
beneath Kachina towers
tall, above our awareness,
atomic & electromagnetic

Indivisible, the flow



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