Gabriel Kruis
Come What May
Quiet—perfectly carnal— (With a capital Q
Works for Nothing (I.e. in perversion
As the Rest, (Your breath
Or stutter,
Assumes the role of Plot. Which is to say,
At Root, there’s no Plain language.
But if, (As Bei Dao writes,
A song’s a mirror that knows the body by heart
The grass is no less than the sound it makes in soil
—Dispersed.
A harbor in the doppler or apse
In the cicadas’ flickering
Click.
Tacit:
That honey locus. The very garner
Of the grain.
Works for Nothing (I.e. in perversion
As the Rest, (Your breath
Or stutter,
Assumes the role of Plot. Which is to say,
At Root, there’s no Plain language.
But if, (As Bei Dao writes,
A song’s a mirror that knows the body by heart
The grass is no less than the sound it makes in soil
—Dispersed.
A harbor in the doppler or apse
In the cicadas’ flickering
Click.
Tacit:
That honey locus. The very garner
Of the grain.
Gabriel Kruis is the author of Acid Virga (Archway Editions, 2020), a co-founder or Wendy's Subway and, along with Martha Tuttle, is an editor of Return to the Field (Wendy's Subway, 2021). He received an MFA from Hunter College and was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown 2018-19.