quiver.garden.spectators
I.
In an elevated hole somewhere on Earth
we grip each other’s breakfasts
against our chests. A toll booth matter-
of-fact kind of waking up occurs every time
the push/pull narcolepsy
keeps us in between mountain ranges
and shit-stained hiking boots.
It’s becoming fonder, the act of sharpening gardens
against our teeth, quivering beneath
the rubber gloves of a stay-at-home dad.
Waiting to strike at his beard, rouse the spectators
into a fiction of telephone wires and Internet.
II.
“I watched the stars quiver last nite.”
“I know, I was there with you; we
both threw our cups of hot chocolate over
the CAUTION fence and made out to existentialism.”
Amnesia plants deep, hides in a hovel away from the sun.
Without a quick-start shiver, or expectation, the garden
eats its malignancy whole, a hoard of bugs
crawl, spectate, develop jowls.
“Oh, please, anywhere but here.”
“Shh sugar, I’m whittling down
wood into a flute; chiseling and cherishing.”
Somnambulism will leave and never come back;
there are sirens beeping at the foot of the mountain
that remind me to look forward.
III.
Gardening a lazy state and nothing changes;
Quivering in rest among fish of an ancient sea;
Someone tell the spectators to go home,
for once.
Logan Ellis is a full-time student studying creative writing and Linguistics. His work is scattered across the Internet in various lit mags, including The Brasilia Review, theNewerYork, A Literation, and the upcoming issue of Eleven Eleven from the California College of Arts. He loves kittens.
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