Memory, Sadness Said

by Elliot Cardinaux

You cavemouthed,
crumbling distance

Swallowed these
shadows.

Audiating dust,
singing
holy mercury

Who cast up
signs

Behind different
walls

In
the muses’
chatter

Beyond
space
& this

Gapingness

Whose
maw said
mew

//

I ask
Who is lost in this body
repeat the spell

Throw more change
into the wick

Deposit your
departure
here

Drawn up
from a swell

I say
there’s room for you

There’s energy

Because of you
there’s magic
in this tone

Vibration
in these long shadows

Tuned to so many
an analog flame

//

A shadow’s
turbine

Grips
the light

The extended
nerve

Signals
the wave-
end

Havens

The thriving
bulb

Deletes you

Crawling
on hands
of thought

Through
the shining
furrow

//

Storm
this
toxin

Deepness
from
the weakness–well

Our breath
within it