Looks like I've got a lot of feelings

by Amy

Glacier Drowning

Water in its easier form,
Once a transparent country
Is now shrill and quick-moving
Rushes to the sewer
As my voice to my bones
From where it would sound from
Before I knew you

Command the kitchen to
Be there for us
Middle of night, get so hungry
We assume that the zoo
Only lives when we see it
And covers its mouth with its hands when we don't
So retreat to our less wild barely-lit habits

The braided rug never spoke before kitchen
It only has eyes for the ABC magnets
No consensus on color,
Woven sound through my stomach
Expected to reveal itself on a loom
Syntax that can be read and then touched
But humans touched before they spoke



Animal Instinct

Most wolves are just people
Lying around with their jaws open
Sharpening them how they do the good silver,
Hoping they'll grow hungry again



Red Rock Garden

I can’t sit and wait to find someone to wake the passion up
That I don’t know I have
After I lost it to him, he said that he knew there was more inside
Than he saw
And that means there is more
Than I’ve considered feeling before

I’m living, now
Drinking wine not to lie down
I’m breathing blood and pumping air
Into my system, no more over and under
In my blonde, I-miss-Jerusalem system
While my friends are out tonight and I said I was going to say at home and think
And I feel somewhere there is a storm
And there is an ocean and a ship and all people are worried they won’t get home
And I think that they will even though I’ve never met them
I wish them well and wish I had spoken up more

I know that I like sharing better than keeping for myself
And I have given the best away rather than stealing more often than not
I don’t think I’ve ever held anything captive,
But I the red wall in my room is something I
Only painted so deep cause I thought it would move
I see sky for more than blue
People have asked what my walls mean
I’ve given nothing but words