from Myths and miscellany: Some instructions: IV: Ionization and nightmares
Christopher Arigo

     

Invisible from the air / lines bind the land

 

                note:

                                   the fleeing birds / the air you breathe / the destroyer of worlds

lightning alchemizes our reflections and reversals

choreographed in redshift but

 

                in the meantime know to paint me with ochre / to wrap me in a simple linen shroud / abandon me to 

                the ocean's restorative alchemy / its anaphoric waves slapping beaches I love

 

ocean—the desert's dopplegänger

 

consider this my last request

 

                                     

 

Note shadows unable to maintain their borrowed shapes

 

Runoff carves rivers given enough time / a valley in which myths reside

 

Note how a mouthful of pennies tastes like blood / like the sea

 

Or bury me among red rock unmarked unknown except by a few—my final fuck you

 

(it is best not to offend the sea)

 

Add this to your anthology of nightmares / to my catalogue of last requests

 

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