Family 

Here, read my palm, make a language of touch, make a family.

Why do you go away, make me watch as you break a family?

Agni and Soma light white the night. Who

knew even the sun and sea can bake a family?

Who's eating who? Feel no fear to gut the duck 

who plucks a fish who bites a snake: ah family!

Mama’s left and papa's always right

in rehearsing how to forsake a family.

The neighbours are looking, come on, hold each 

other’s hands, don’t forget how to fake a family.

We were glass wind and water. Who

raised us to be so opaque? Our family. 

Childless, Adam and Eve would have remained naked.

Cain and Abel happened because of a snake — a family.

So much has the power to kill us — a flood, space

debris, a dream, icicles, an earthquake, our family. 

Begin in becoming and end after coming — so fickle

a flicker of flesh a flume a fuck a fleck a flake a family.

For years you've crawled on the bed of the ocean, break

the surface, Shannan, I swear no more will it ache — a family.