The crumpled steel
guarded movement
its offering, dead
bells on felt
squares
walk your
body around its
outline, in some
distress and rust
you got it right
*
see through-
enter off
the sides
no edge left
unturned, blurred
in point of fact
a soft glow beckons
before we are barred
from the lights
the way we like
*
any number of ways
to squeeze a brushed
defenseless box
meaning mind pouring
holes down through
the top reinforcing
its phantom
dust coated tongues
of grey green plants
open prairie
*
I would like it better
strolling each side alone
iron grips
the long and dark
long and bright
divided
CEDAR SIGO was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. A book of lectures, Guard the Mysteries will be published by Wave Books in June 2021.