eurypterid, the poem Lyrics

She

Only speaks in energy

The silence grips her throat

Like letters of a collective poem

A collective song unsung

Collected images, moments captured in light, with no sound

From the arthritis ridden fingers of grandmother's grandmothers, who are grandmothers

Generations of salty blockages in oesophagus

She lives a life duplicated, from films, of 1997 and 2002

I live in a screen seen from the other side of my ancestors

In high places: fluid, silk, and nighttime

I fall in love with the moon 'pon every rise of ella cuerpo

Over and over again

Milky, milky

I speak of her so much

I sleep with her stunt double

Flips, b-sides, and remixes

Tied up in submission of these dominant thoughts

Waxes dripping as they wane in the frames of phase

Put you up, on the wall

Follow me with your eyes

I do all the talking, I do all the spilling

Water splattered in your language

Reading shells and seeds, tossing in anguish

You're a divine mind reader, she languidly told me

But let's stop here before we go too far to return, too far to sea

Soothe sayer, I believe

Our daughter floats and does not walk

She feels like a son

Wiping her cheeks to dryly look up, she asks me

Who am I to talk about you and mommy now?

Who am I, to be born again, here, as if you and mommy were never there? With me

Rivers soak

Her eyes hold me like I can't help but hold her

But I'm scared

She was patient

Coffee prepared

Cause it relaxes you

How strange

Breakfast waiting

Does she know of our war in the night?

A smile of citrus and candy-coloured tongue

Crumbs at the corners, napkins won't suffice

A mouthful of sweet nothing

Bitter say something

Say something

Say something