oklahoma city, oklahoma
knows the weight of your latent heat
(twisting into miles of kinetic energy -

each time you breathe
into the sleeping countenance
of me)

forty trillion watts of you
sluicing through my dreams
upsloping toward the cusp
of my subconscious

as i turn procumbent over your
isolated debris

(they call malevolence
the finger of god -
every time your sky turns green)

&
i'll awaken when you release

the phrenic remnants
of me

02/02/2005