And Buried

Hawthorned and berriless,

How can consent forgotten primordial tongues––

[she] [to me when I’ve]

Migration takes generation,

slower than bird. Than

tectonic.

Than

Fingernail.

Pith and crowned

(this ocean under); the sun blinds first.

[I am]

blinds [me] first,

[us]

[we]

Intervening. Intravenous, [I] (do not know how to ask these kinds of Questions).

Questions

Of

Compilation.

Questions

Of

Smelling like

(the good kind of)

Death

And the wind blows

Everything

To

The

West.

May tree,

White Wither. [She is, might be]

Root bound,

confined to

Concrete. [Time]

takes time. Overripe,

protection of the blood as

Crataegus.

Adjectival. [Some days]

Fatal.

I do not know how to ask these kinds of questions,

Hawthorned and berriless…

Hawthorned and berriless… Hawthorned

and

buried.