In the field of traumas1 come the base savannascrosshairs tighten2
on the flaring3 pink of the evening.
Recognize the world. After the bit of blue, after a window opened
to air and the portioned stereo of love and grandeur4, after
mother sews a fell-off button, heats a stew5, sews at the factory,
re-stews, tires, starts (again),
father shortens a barrel, leans blast-weapons beneath windows,
stacks ammo with scream and apocalypse.
Under cover, you are dead behind the couch when they knock.
From the first, in the glossed-over city where none reprimand
violence, the palms executed along the auto6 avenues thrive
a pitch-staggered procession in white-painted trunks.
The memoir7 has shown how bitter and relentless8 is the rind
privacy flowers pubescent, hopeful to outlast9 time.
Traffic flows or sTOPs on elevated structures in denial of the seven- point-two,
and in the aftermath of advertising10, children wander the highway in search of litter.
The citizens are trembling among the trembling.
Against the green stripagainst the urbane11 and its expansion into the continent, the boulevard is the last boundary between the sky and the low-lying building,
though it is too accomplished12 among the rest of the wreckage13.
They have their memories. The trigger is set on annihilation.