A MAN PLACES A VIAL CONTAINING HUMAN CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN CREATED BY HIS UNBORN CHILD DEEP INTO THE CENTER OF A BOULDER.

the flavor in our mouths
is the youth that we have lost

the youth that we have lost
will be found in the freedom we have left behind

an immovable object need not be uncovered
to be sought after

the ones
for which we travel into the hills

not to
them

into them
underneath them
into the rock and marrow of the mountain
to the underground rivers without names

where the news of you
will in due time come

when the news of you
is all of you

for the karst it is simply a weekend sport
submerged in the spring water
of the shallowest streams of this mountain

for your mother and I
an afternoon staring at the wind
a decade counting heartbeats

only to have our memories taken from us
in the stealth of working lunches

your mother
a mountain on the mountain

the pregnant skyline

curving and undulating
a bump where the uterus would be
each peak of the range an unborn child

you come from the ocean
in this case from the North of the Atlantic
or possibly the Gulf of Mexico

you come from the rain carried here from whichever there
you come from the clouds through the soil

you come through the permeable rock
the limestone
the dolomite
the sandstone

you come from that spring that is plumbed to our house

you come from somewhere within us
and back again

you are the immovable object
situated within the mountain

out there everywhere
in there somewhere

[BOULDER, HUMAN CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, GLASS VIAL, WAX SEAL - performance / sculpture]

2013