Wild Boundary

there is a new wild boundary

beyond the hearts and minds of the city people

swirling like tops, erupting in the sunshine like cumming volcanoes.

Swallow whole the fly, the frog does. 

He sits on a dark rock, smooth and quiet.

His dark eyes dart back and forth like eager windshield wipers in the pouring rain.

His dark eyes dart back and forth

He closes his eyes

and stops his licking.

for just a moment   

a second   

quiet
quiet,
nothing.
 Pause.

A hazy light glows green in the forest, as if it were enchanted

but the forest is not enchanted;

It is glowing with a deep hatred, a deep anger.

It glows deep underground, in the roots of the trees,

deep in the dank soil of my father's time,
and my father's father's time,
and my father's father's father's time,
and my father's father's father's father's time.

I get out.  I move. I don't let the forest steal my soul.

I won't be tricked by something so primitive. 
fuck that.

A year goes by  (it's only been a month)  a year goes by

and the mind goes by, by the south gate, by the mire. 

Do you remember how we were?  In the sunshine,

late at night, 

smoking cigarettes in the backyard, 

late at night.

You said you loved me, and I believed you.

I said I loved you, and you believed me.

What were we thinking, thinking of each other, together forever, 

as each other's lovers.

But little did I know 

that it would not last.

I took you for granted,

wanted someone else's enchantments,

But I realized I missed you, 

until I actually kissed you.

We shouldn't be together, 

We're not buttons on a sweater,

We only talk about the weather,

When is that ever better?

I told you once I loved you, 

and truly I loved you,

But now I feel so angry, 

singing to myself a song:

"Everybody seems to think I 'm lazy!"

fuck off fuck off,

you know I'm cut off,

but i'll keep trying if you keep off.