haiku: body / Elle Provolo

haiku: body

Elle Provolo

i have been drowning in the bitter ocean’s tide my body is hollow

“Jupiter and Saturn may leave marks on the sun’s corpse”

Nadia Niva

I stand here with the bug on my chest I stand in front of her, in front of them in the room with blinding lights I bow to the bug with yellow eyes with a small green face with a heart made of lead I can be a lesbian this way I can be an simple form of gay I can be a knight this way I can be handsome I can be stunning I can be a man this way I can be braver than the window I can be the window this way I can walk out to the stream and consider how it runs and consider the light in my palms and consider the space between bodies I can carry myself down the stream this way losing warm air from the window losing memory of life before fucking before sitting in the living room watching TV with a small green face with two eyes like mammals with the fat heart of a frog when finally the door opens the kid steps onto land away from the darkness into the amusement park

where all the lights are red where all the books are free where all the alphabets are tangled the kid finally comes home