Humidity
We could blame the moon
that we poach en papillot in our own slime,
since nothing else looks so wet
in darkness that conceals everything else.
We blame the climate
for this weather, and whose fault
is that? Last winter a sickle moon shone
like icy dew on steel, but now
it softly glints like steaming porridge.
Then could come around again,
but now always matters more.
We could blame the moon
as well for our ears’ constant buzzing,
which is why we never pause
anymore to listen past the monotony
of some bug or bird rasping
like a file on metal in hidden foliage.
Of course it’s just a dry rock;
we’ve been to it. We mussed its dust
hopping on it like slow motion
kangaroos, but it looks just the same
from here as when Jesus
and his gang took corn from the fields
by its light to be like the ravens
and worthy of their hire.
If I said you, you’d want to know who,
but you never ask about we
and assume that I means me. The moon
pulls a lot of water around down
here, so is it centripetal
or centrifugal that sucks out this ooze
to lave our skins in stinging stink?
that we poach en papillot in our own slime,
since nothing else looks so wet
in darkness that conceals everything else.
We blame the climate
for this weather, and whose fault
is that? Last winter a sickle moon shone
like icy dew on steel, but now
it softly glints like steaming porridge.
Then could come around again,
but now always matters more.
We could blame the moon
as well for our ears’ constant buzzing,
which is why we never pause
anymore to listen past the monotony
of some bug or bird rasping
like a file on metal in hidden foliage.
Of course it’s just a dry rock;
we’ve been to it. We mussed its dust
hopping on it like slow motion
kangaroos, but it looks just the same
from here as when Jesus
and his gang took corn from the fields
by its light to be like the ravens
and worthy of their hire.
If I said you, you’d want to know who,
but you never ask about we
and assume that I means me. The moon
pulls a lot of water around down
here, so is it centripetal
or centrifugal that sucks out this ooze
to lave our skins in stinging stink?
