Love Pools

Flush and teenage
I begin life in a pool
Jump in with my dress
ballooning
Life opens this way

On a farm
That grows nothing
That keeps no animals
Driven by hunger
I jump in the pool
My hair radiant
To begin

In the beginning I am cold
for the hours after-birth
twisting in a towel
All the citizens know
the story of my birth—
Every pore weeping chlorine
& the weeping is golden
& the bits of gold catch feeling
The feeling catches in my mouth
& I keep it there
Every time, I gather these lights
they fall into my body
into unsure and slanted places
& they jostle as the pop songs do
Slam into each other, brakeless, body to body
& they rhyme nation to party
Durational testing the amphetamine of night

Floating under a jacaranda blanket
stitched with secret commentary
I dreamed your comment
citing a book and an author
I dreamed this parallel world
I birthed this author, I raised her, fed her,
I gave her a sister
I wrote her whole book
I wrote the comment and the cited passage
I dreamed of a you freely offering yr thought
I dreamed the thoughts mingled with the wet of the bodies
under the glowing blossoms
I woke up thinking
This was everywhere: a commentary of the sky

I soak in this infinity pool
a cascade’s unbroken loop
a beaded hole and thread
Is yr question a multitude question?
I feel it tangle the lights
I feel it pollinate hourly
The manyness coming up
That manyed mouth touches yours over time
Marking before now and after now and now and now and now