Deserts Under Water

the full filed teeth of your little rubber sailors
skateboarding
across floors scarred by centuries of memory

	the apartments inside your eye
	flooded in the sheer hilarity
	of the laughter shared between their walls

you have taken a long and beautiful look
across a deep desert of oceans
elizabethan high beds surfing across a living bumpy floor
the soulful lassitude and drama
of underwater lights of broadway

	the irregular heave against glass and steel
	by the random currents of extrapolated vision

	medical plantlife on the top floor of the clouds
	magnetizing the force of their seeds at ground level

	the swaying grasses of the grace of vacant lots
	that grow as eyebrows of earth below skyline

	your memory of these places
	both small and large as the footsteps of childhood

no matter
children still play here
sing
	we live here
	we live here
	our songs and our games
	are alive here

from Yew Nork (2014)