longboat funeral of your letters

I just want to place some ashes there,
to prod it out to the middle with a pole

The longboat funeral of your letters
and the letting go 

--entering the desert



you are slash and whip
sharp teeth and drawn passion
waterlogged wood written in red
a dissolution in anemic acid
drunk up thru roots a slake of sundrench
and humid half moon nights.

i tell you i do not want
to write you again.

gather all of the words we once exchanged
add to them my fire, your oxyconton
a cyan neon signature , alleles
and attributes of sparks. you always
were the good consumer, light it up
let's see this sucker burn.