Burrow
Channel: Henry Mills
Date: 2011-10-03

Henry Mills - vocals
Stephen Fleg - moog, rhodes, sp 404
Ibby Ross - drums

12.3.09
UMD

BURROW

Bombs now bore further into the earth
to reach the crowded bunkers.
This is how the rules of refuge and mercy change.

Burrow deeper.
Stare up through the sewers towards those muffled blasts.
Stumble through the tunneled world.
Rise to earth--ghost,
hungry for sunlight.
Propel upwards
hot as stones or bullets or stars!

We, the children of Warsaw,
hidden under floorboards, flinch
at thunder, wish
on mortars
hunkered in the bunkers from the soldiers.
 
Called cockroaches--
and yes we’re survivors of meteorites!
Our bodies all aglow in cloacal dark!

Imagine the sun within a loaf of bread,
bright fruits in their wooden stalls,
awnings closing over them—
your heart, a bullet loaded in your chest!

There is no sky, only
endlessness…

There is a word pounding
in my chest.

There is a landmine in my mouth.