road salvation

Written and performed for Leafing Through, 2026

potato in a bird feeder, peanut
butter on the pine cone
every cage that keeps
keratin clung keratin: prevailing
winds, then acrylic resin
catalyzed like kintsugi

which i have only seen in replica:
a bowl so strong where
were shattered places;

beakgrain of bonepick & asphalt,
a peeling; a gold vein in
ceramic. my father, the

jeweler, says, soft metal: this is
never why women wear
signet rings. it is-not g-d.

one oughtn’t throw a bowl sealed
to test hypotheses. pre-
sorted flower seeds set

on ranger’s ratted carhartt strips
called breakfast, called
adonai, cried asherah-his.

she called, black clay grasp light,
fescue hold hail seeds,
hollow bones lift wings.

pneumatic, these grottos within
substance of face, that
that we are must be filled.

i the first cut of carrion, femur last,
want of soft peck and
osso buco. sustenance

transfer proves law of conservation?
: i am yours because you,
you have carried rocks

in your gizzard to drop mealworms
in my gullet. mother, truth
is not beauty but gratitude.