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