When Kali Dances the Earth Around

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Through the nuthatch's eye we saw spaces between branches

And leaves that molecules have and cells use for breathing

We stood up in the dome of the cherry and it was setting sun

Striking trees in the east, blazing filtered to teach regular sound

Of nuclear seeds nuclear hair telephone sky nuclear bread

Chanted atomic sparrow singing down upsurged by wind

These threaded days onto days into chains of months

The months into centuries beaded as blue earth stones

One after the other in a bracelet Kali wears on one of her wrists

A skull housing each stone brown in the shadow

Of the bank complex here and not here and she keeps

Soaking up fish we've eaten a crimson blend of sublunar chords

Into this neighborhood Milky Way circling crowd cast

We sat back into spaces splendorized by army personnel

Our pittance when we dropped a human anchor

Suffering what could be our shadow-bleeding ground

Many suns had been out in vast expanses beyond thinking

The certain answers out with them beading month into month

The months into century after century into Kali's anklet rocking

This planet round and black forests turned blazing already buried

In future fathoming molecules sweeping up