MATT HART





SUN KNOT


The trucks come on
like deer along the road,
irregular delphiniums
roaring light work.
And a storm is brewing,
because somewhere a storm is
always brewing, and I suppose
saying it that way isn't
very interesting, but
it might as well be here
that it rains and blows the fuck-off.
This morning I got up
at 5:30am, and now
at whatever time this is
I'm still doing my job
designing a variety
of obliterating devices,
feeling my way
through the tall grass
of the water towers
and flying a little blind
into the leafscape. I think
it's important to admit
that I don't know my way
very well around the depths
given the plethora of surfaces
I have to contend with
just to be a likeable version
of who I might have been
had I not for all these years
squandered my opportunities.
I wanted to be a flock
of starlings when I was small
and after that I just wanted
to be a star. Alas, what comes
and goes is always gone
even in the moment
it's most persistent.
Nevertheless, I hold on
and hold on, returning
to return, combusting
to confetti. Somebody
give me a beer, I often blurt.
It really isn't so hard
to imagine the possibility
that I'm the creator
making everything up
and that you're the destroyer
bloodletting the onyx.
That I may have that backwards
is also more than probable.
The babble in probable. The rubble
and the rub. The trucks come on.
The sun sidles up. I follow
the breadcrumbs that nobody drops.
They just appear there
in the sky to throw me off.
Once I had a dream of our hearts
fused as one, but then I woke up
in my own tangled arms.






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