CAConrad

head out window on

the baptism highway

shake tall

buildings

out of my

loving you

down far down

far far down by a

rock at the water

finish cooking soup with

violins everything could use

a melody to set it right

mitigate suffering you

care you

cannot with

success deny

needing violins

okay trombones the

trombones enter the

pasta entering our bodies

the microscope shows

there is song between the grains

the wind the wheat endured is

a taste the

animal

carries forward

immersion of

hours through a

loosening bone

we are without the

timing of the beetle

a sound that cannot

get to where we left

our homes in shame

CAConrad is the author of TRANSLUCENT SALAMANDER (TROLL THREAD Press, 2012), A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON: New (Soma)tics (WAVE Books, 2012), The Book of Frank (WAVE Books, 2010), Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010). He is a 2011 PEW Fellow, a 2012 UCROSS Fellow, and a 2013 BANFF Fellow. Visit him at CAConrad.blogspot.com.