big town blues (x) — my beautiful turbulence

small water flat
now there’s a could
flow ripple flux
good

now there’s a too
run connect X
commanded intersect
complex

at resonance ken
harsh desire
crack–faced rock insert
wire

fascination weed
city map current
push sing disturb
rock tenement

and it stops
halts
not freezes
stops

the intensity
the concentration
the fascination
cockteased

hours it takes
harsh to human speak
days it takes
harsh to human heart

centuries
my beautiful turmoil
unchanged still
unchanged

still

what’s