humancraft

Michael Quigg (Bio)

i create you

in the space-sun fire

laughing in the natural way

where there are no cameras

with father eyes and lipstick drowning

how are you not                                                          surrounded

by warmth

 

–is a written smile even worse?—

–is a written smile even worth it?—

the ink (digital)

your blue eyes

black-and-white.

more music needed:

horse strings under

centipede beats

i smoke a lit chisel ’til the time bleeds over.

 

i can force you now, darling, to be created

and what are we here?

or tomorrow, when

each breath you take

against the other.

deathmatch dreams

in old rooms anew.

before the daybreak of sleep.

no golden frames,

no library shelves. call each crease

a nook, and each brainwave

a cranny.         rain

into me

let the sculpture

die, then merge

with what is left

tomorrow