Poems | What Has Weight

What a Day

Now a lump in my throat / croaks / hear hear —
finger me / please!

What is already said and definitely dead / fed to ears / hear hear
trapped inside the blind alley
it scratches the wall — tears / fears / try cries / vocal fries

no one is listening
as it slips down the throat / of the deaf and dumb-dumb.

Numb-numb tingle / multiple singles / aren't necessarily alone
words speak to each other / moist / they slip down the gut
I hold my belly and cry / look at people passing by

In moist eyes they flicker,
look weak.

Extend the finger and bend them. they squeak.
Roll them and put in the eardrum.
hear hear / dumb-dumb.

Won't sleep / but toss and turn
sandals hurt my belly / please remember me barefoot
naked, with an 'n' and an apple —
bite my stomach.

My dead lives in my ears / I hear
wax the canal / lump my throat
until they float / down my belly / a millimeter a day

a day a day / what a day, dumb-dumb.