Ex Nihilo

It starts like this/ Watch the ocean and sky kiss/ Building a ship of feathers/ A place for sunburnt, stranded sailors/ A tray for stillwater dreams/ We crave a spell, a fix, a score/ A contagion or a cure/ Wearing shades till the candlelight begins its rhyme/ Never get caught in nursery time/ Never make contact of eyes/ We tell ourselves it's Bethlehem/ Inhaling glass/ Playing house/ Psychological profiles of planets/ Silence amuses and upsets/ Lay on your backs, arms out-stretched/ Watch other heartbeats teach flying lessons/ Hallucinate in sunspots/ See the clouds as they dot out your fate in negative space/ An extinct hue of eyes amidst a shade of blue/ Stick your head out the firmament/ Past the clouds/ Breathe in the stars/ Dome of the world/ Never as menacing as these white fences/ The moon and her menses/ All our defenses against a scorching sun/ Skyscrapers pierce but our fingers an eyes remain the best tools to drill small holes/ To see what we want to see/ Squinting in belief or disbelief/ Hot cities and cold deserts/ Hot coals and dust bowls/ Anchored ghosts/ A strange, soothing spark/ A defeated arc/ Acorn fell upon my head/ Mother earth waits with bated breath and open jaws/ Beware mass hysteria in a closed world/ Fear-mongers striking dumb first/ War efforts/ Sounding alarms/ Black swans/ Sick doctors/ Confetti leaves/ Glittering sheets of ice/ Thrones of sapphire/ Where is all that truly radiates?/ Invisible lighthouses of hearts/ Pitching tens for spiritual camps/ Sitting Indian-style above his grasshoppers/ Waiting for the day they'll make music again/ Rotating along the circle curve like Buddha on a toy train set/ A supposed circuit unending/ Making night, restoring light/ Millions of years in one blink/ Life unworthy of life still thrives/ Tattooed with shoelaces and turquoise veins/ Repercussions of deformity/ Antiseptic bombs/ Hitchhiker's thumb/ Scapegoats and escape artists/ Chicken pox/ Contempt attacks with gnashing teeth/ Compliments and black sex magic/ Totality, forgiveness, thunderstruck/ Too good to be true/ Kneel in the desert and die/ Animals fuck and we sing love songs/ Oblivious housewife with a feather-duster/ Talking puppets/ A flick of ash/ Adam's rotten-apple atoms/ Superbirds and Zenplanes/ The Morning After/ Dead idols, trendsetters, setting worlds on fire/ Casino collapsing/ Purse-Panties-Keys, check/ An embrace like a boa/ Penetrate, Swallow Whole/ One nail through two feet/ Time's cruel canopy/ A funny tragedy/ The audience is laughing blood