Landscape With Oil Rig
After Platform Gilda in Santa Barbara County, California
hurtling into
absolute
down puncture hiss
anechoic carbonation
throat releases the compression
of every shadow-creature
with a subcutaneous injection
chrome white-knuckles into thermal ventilation
the mountain’s installation
scaffolding from the center of the sea
under a hum of triangulated drones
tides slice muted sheets of obsidian
under a substitute for the cosmos
rusted membranes spatter natal foam
an orchestra of polyps uploads their calcium
into the slow-rise of titanic extraction
Landscape With Spilled Diesel
After Richard Wilson’s 20:50 (1987)
loosened tongue
plink
palpitations of potential energy
slick
segmented steel with pluvial opalescence
liquid void renders surfaces smooth and suffocated
pyrogeny blotches every open mouth
with irradiated particulate pupation
a prelude to the muscular collapse
of hides squirming amongst fluid persistence
cowpunch conceals into the sucked pockets of cheeks
vapors settle into the vacancy of freshly scrubbed nostrils
puckered raw by the wet flavor of chaos
intestinal unrest throws the body out of itself
pools of metallic pollen flint-strike into curled eyelids
marking the futility of decontamination protocols
