Black Morning/Viscera

[Part I: Black Morning]

I woke and found outside my door
A black lake rippling against the hand
Its tongues lick the flesh from my bones
And replace skin with waves
A bulging eye

I called into the black lake and dove head
Over heels into the water
And pulled out my heart from the seaweed
A pounding eye
O, it's golden, it's golden, it's golden

[Part II: Viscera]

I came back with a broken summer and a broken spine
Broken spine
Grazed by the heat and stung by, stung by the night
Stung by the night

Tried yoga, couldn’t do yoga

Wasn’t the stretches
Wasn’t the stretches, nor the downward dog
It was, it was as the breathing thing
And upside down, I felt my organs, my organs falling out
Through my throat

One by one
Liver, lungs, lungs, liver
Lungs, lungs, lungs, lungs, liver!

They came fast, fast like fingers
Inside-out in one snap
Snap, snap

And then the vocal cords, and then the vocal cords
Flowed like seaweed out of my mouth