Sex Dream
“…of the kind one finds on the page before the Bible begins.”
—Larry Levis
All of this
underwater once hard to picture
Harder still to recall the sound her wings made
over those first few days
that far underground (thank
you trauma Ambien
& Microsoft)
Then again every chemical
induced spell even
to a child feels like home eventually
There you are beginning & end
One day here
The next there (by the by give
my love to
Gretta Garbo)
How clever searching for mountain
spring water
while the devil plays sudoku
∞
Close by gray wolves
patrolling a ravine
cut by the same rains that washed
away the Garden
True Adam never saw Eve’s thing
for snakes coming
Even closer father sleeptalking
again the words
this time coming
in bands of sevens
& threes mostly
Closer than death itself mother’s
worn to hell Baltimore Catechism
reeking still of the war
to end all wars