The Americans

 

It goes without

 

saying: something

 

pounding while

 

something else

 

explodes.

 

 

 

Can you say

 

to the flower:

 

bloom harder?

 

Bloom different.

 

 

 

Now in the emergency

 

the process hurts

 

even when it doesn’t

 

break the skin.

 

 

 

What would it

 

take to give you

 

this finished

 

feeling, 1492?

 

 

 

A future beside

 

itself, its death

 

concurrent with

 

other forms of

 

discovery: the lake                           

 

the grass, the feeling

 

in your hand.

 

 

 

The national history

 

of a species

 

is not natural

 

enough. To repeal

 

this transaction

 

pick a side of

 

the equation

 

and unearth it

 

with your heart.

 

 

 

What has broken.

 

What is just

 

about to break.