After August Gay’s painting “Woman in the Garden” & Alex Garland’s film “Annihilation” &
Kaveh Akbar’s poem “Portrait of the Alcoholic Floating in Space with Severed Umbilicus”
in some planet-terror forming conjoining look at shattered stars their prisms widen so wide in fact only now flowers bloom what if they or the woman is looking reverberating dissolving & now only color is their morphing. to what eye can i stomach this perception can we stomach this perception stomachs the garden remembrance conceptual it’s splattering zoom in further i am taught to fight it taught to run from it how about we embrace it. a forest breathes creating new life splattering blue nova splattering red eye petrify these bewilderments above this land what do we become? the trick of light balancing us her them each color combines prismatic sacrifice be still. fade from view hear that be still. observe through dissolution be still. much haunted dreams through transparency listen to the animals gather transmutation & refraction each blot of color embedding in you her us. you can fight the change, or you can run from it. or you can embrace be still. look at all the flowers. ∎