rounding out for fall

Outside the MIA with a headache so overdone 
Can barely reason for words but here boymoding 
the twisted skin brown oak 
art oak 
the cicadas beat the odds 
still kicking 
the crickets start in early tonight ushering leaves to their seats
leaves surrender 
dim the lights 
everyone's getting a move on 
"the living need light
the dead need music*" 
and the feeling needs a table to carve 
the sun is a coin falling between flats of clouds 
the students in hair that precedes them 
knotted to each other faces' close as knotted shoelaces
the shudder and the break 
outsider, something is wrong
a shadow on the lash, 
a splash disrupts the waves in space
I feel myself opening again
dance with fluid the sharp 
marble whittles my headache 
into a round stone 
why shouldn't I throw it? 
I feel myself opening again 
came last night to the image of myself, 
round and huge and beautiful as the earth 
self rounded to a stone 
why shouldn't I throw it? 

the quote is reference to the film “The Living Need Light / The Dead Need Music” that took many people to make, but was written by Sáng tác and Trịnh Công Sơn. Full credits here https://www.the-propeller-group.com/thelivingneedlightcredits. Showing at the MIA in Minneapolis in fall 2022.

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