"thing heaven" and "forest before daybreak" by finn carpenter

thing heaven

piled errata skinned

bones and erotic

mystery mags hissing

spilling spitting and crawling

mounded too tall

objects tumbledown furniture

upholstery rot and

soiled seat cushions

decompose towards

thing heaven

forest before daybreak

goodbye, light, ‘til the city is bathed in dawn—

for streetlights are branches from great fallen trees—

skyscrapers darkened, we fall to our knees

as the city, so still, is wrung from beneath.

the waning has begun, our lives but pawns—

for streets are now paths worn slowly by hooves—

in our starlit behemoth of sky as our roof

polaris, once stable, starts wobbling south

as truth, forsaken, shouts out til dawn—

cicadas and crickets shall echo in streets, dramatically

trafficless, into the night as it seeps

while the city, so loud, is subsumed from beneath—

the city as biome, the city as peace.