memory

yesterday i walked through the colored atmosphere’s center
to find a knife pointing to where ice flowed and burnt
into memories wall

the knife looked as if it were about to throw itself across the lake at me,
so i ducked into even more bizarre arrangements
where nerves were turning into ashes and melting off bones

 

across the watery velvet of the lake cooling
by my feet i looked into the frozen stream

the metal on it sang in minor keys when i breathed on it

 

touching these keys i lifted one and tossed it into a vault

looking under a stone i found another key
but this one was black and was an odd ornament, its casement all of granite,

it rolled away from me at first
but then became more cautious of the calendar intruding on the landscape
 

i just stood and stared until the landscape came back into view
with a strange light creeping over my eyes