compost
raze all things are bent by the weight of days
past the point of breaking
surrendered to the greater good
or some lesser evil
content to stir its artifice
like a clueless caretaker
fragile in agility

it's a kind of hush that falls over us
it's a kind of rain we'll never see again

when the part you choose to throw away
doesn't fragment or disintegrate
the heat that lives inside its skin
will convert itself back into leaves
when the skyline bleeds and the colour runs
that's another way of waking up
when the air we breathe is copper dust
i guess that'll be the end of us
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...
unhinged my arm strains against the bucket
(i wait til it is absolutely full to take it out, delaying until tomorrow what should be done today)

there is mold already growing like a strange flower
all the liquid left in the coffee filters, grounds sticks the biodegradable bag to the side of the bucket

i gag on the smell of decomposition and shake myself out like a dog
i hold the bucket at arm's length as the coffee drips
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what's it to you?
who go
blather
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