The Fields

After Etel Adnan’s Champs de Petrol

in the net                           a mother                            I want to                            hide
work joints                         board                                 hold close                         from me
twist & sup                         a dusty city                        your soft                           this net

port each                           oil refinery                         city & yet                           work ribs
other                                  from above                        the angles                        holding in
a complex                          Corpus Christi                    cut in                               sides in, in

I try to find                         a memory                           a map                             arced art
a handle                            of grass                              of a metro                       eries interior
for floating                         in the green                       of a country                     of becoming

but it slips                          hard rive                            that's given up                 civilization
from mr                              nest memory                     naming stations               & pumped
my body                             wired                                 after heroes                     from earth

bridges                              inside this                          handle                             every line
nodes                                little city                             attached                          a sign
to nodes                            are citites                          to handles                       of humans

stretches                           like Troy                             a shovel                          a mirror
& bends                            holds seven                        I can't grasp                    this mirror
to step                              beneath cities                     to break                          mirrors