good awakening 6

the one who has left the house continually finds pleasure

in words and speeches, by night in sleep

if he slept in a burning house

and the surface of the sky turned cloudless and pure

good awakening 9

he has forgotten indeed his own name

suffering like an immortal worm

his sense of smell is not destroyed

only by their disappearance did the teachers assemble these

good awakening 12

he is to sit in a house with arms akimbo

I squeeze my veins day and night

without peace a thousand ages might all cease

whoever orders a letter written

for which speech are you sitting and waiting?

Audacia Dangereyes runs Stone Age Type and publishes Portable Islands, a soon-to-be-unveiled irregular ezine which purports to incite poetic terrorism. She spends her summers writing and photographing on Washington Island in the icy waters of Lake Michigan.