plosive of implode

i prefer the plosive of implode to explode / it leaves an ashy sheen on my body / my tongue a clapper ricocheting inside a bell / my heart pealing+racing / a momentary flutter that steals my breath

my mind a guttersnipe wild in the streets / ogling the arabesques of peking ducks in chinatown windows / hurling epithets+rocks at empty storefronts+bent wrong way do not enter signs / the signs of the apocalypse long gone / a nuclear winter haze for sun

the plosive detached / hoyhoyhoyboy / floating disembodied down crumble canyon streets / storms a comin / humanity / aint we a treat

What I’m Reading: 

About you: weather will taste metallic in the overnight

visuals, something lightdark, slick-liver-wet 

Put a whisper into a jar, a war

  trots out of your chiaroscuro head

— Carolina Ebeid / “Assume the Role of Cassandra, Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera”