Nicholas Alexander Hayes


Independence of Motion




Desire Paths

Desire paths halve and halve the distance
between the ember and the moth.
Arcs mark the place where gravity
loses grace, and orbit is achieved

Theia in Gaia’s womb
and a child abandoned to heaven.

Fingers in the dirt
while the worm sleeps in the rose.

A wind from the cavern
where light and shadow make the world.

 

[In chordate selves…]

In chordate selves strung around the central tower,
150 songs are plucked along these high-tension lines
with ball peen hammers
as we wait for zeppelins to blot
out the sun.

Helium from stars — 
proton rich and bloated
waiting for a nick in a
sheet of Corinthian leather
over the Naugahyde rug.

 

Ripples in the Matrix

Bellicose extremity,
dew dropping the long ham
of errant knights.

Masterless under red masks,
bred into the nucleus 
with strong force 
over all.

Bellicose extremity,
tadpoles in a trebuchet 
aimed the Sea of Tranquility.

Masterless under red masks,
armed pilgrims feel themselves
roam longing for erections
of home.

Twilight city in ecstasy of tumult
surrounded by personae abandoned
for the tunneling of white worms — 
pale from bellicose generations
in peach stones.

Nicholas Alexander Hayes is the author of Bliss (Alien Buddha Press, 2022), Ante-Animots: Idioms and Tales (BlazeVOX, 2019) and Amorphous Organics (SurVision, 2019).

 
 

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