30 August 2025
1 September 2025

on the wish list

when energy is sucked
from the vacuum
then blown back in again

and humans have force-evolved
to engineer themselves
as beings post-biological

post-machine…
will they sing backward
their poems to the holocene?

and from the volcano
of impossible
salutary air

from the effort
to heave saints overboard
and drown their song

from the vast
complexity collapse
as waves crash

from the children’s cheer
when the engineer
faints in the heat

a sweet
heart
deal

like blows dealt
on neither meat nor green
is made

and eve and adam
are saved
again