Mike Krutel
FROM MONUMENT
Each day I think about hunger
Without hunger
Without having to think
I go on break so long my body gets confused Not
break What I mean
is I lapse time is mud is water deep
in so called whatisunderneath
All together A sludging How can I talk to the world with this body every day
I say hello to some geese It’s like a saying
saying goodbye
Where was a well
happening If they hire me by months what are days even and put
With month’s end I can have a wellness Each day
I think about hunger without hunger
without having to think Is that working
Is that being professional meaning
It is a dying What is my wellness Do I need water to
be a well It is in a dying need
an enactment of/during That will mean anything
A professional stacks stones A working
world circles the cavern alone
crawls in a What is a history working
hard in ground
Dream #6
Brian is missing Everyone puts on their skis and begins the search We’re told that night is too dangerous for Cover of darkness too Small figure pulling the likeness of Brian in the snow high on the hill A cavern is in it A cavern is in the earth The aged former child star is in it Is lost to the cavern Just as Brian Appears Totally alone At the top He’s been staying with a family he’s never known The cavern is in it The cavern tries to eat us up
In the epilogue I stand at the counter ordering premade pasta dishes A teenager A teenager with a book behind the counter tells me just a few minutes Jamie is gone I do not know this Like a fact $8.96 / lb The couscous is not ready made I am made to wait Just a little longer I know Jamie is gone because I can feel that she’s gone Lost to what I walk home Sky the color of stone
These strawberries make my teeth hurt
w/o hunger
DREAM #7
I come home from the convenience store I come home from the poetry reading I come home from the parking lot I come home from my old job I come home from old friends I come home accidentally wearing your khaki skirt and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you and you are burned and I still love you