Evelyn Hampton
A plant divided the room into “good” and “bad” and the room became conscious of itself.
A disease that’s bigger than the body—beauty?
I bend from you to touch the ground when grass is read. That’s how it spreads.
Evolution
I ran to where the artificially inseminated elephant was against herself.
Like religion I had to pass through the elephant
To the human, a little stick
With a message attached, something lunar.
Blue hoops flew through me
An echo ran past
A thing hung its tongue from me
The tongue hung its lung from me
And heaved in a language of gas.
The real me is the one in the monkey mask. A tree showed me that.
I slept on a small machine of grass.
The country overran dust, meaning to outlast us.
