Lithospheres

“At night cities have no
walls and the streets are
hectic like electric rivers
where raucous music and
phosphorescent fashions
are steady as a wave
or a pulse that must
start somewhere, so
someone is dancing
and they are dancing on
enormous drums in caves
where the air is the colour
of nothing like twilight and
white plumes of vapour
wriggle out of the deep
cracks in the shiny black
rock and everyone has
very thin skin because of
hiding here for so long,
dancing in the dark with
drums, their timing so
perfect and singing so
sweetly, looking almost
like ghosts but they can’t
see me at all.”

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cities, electric rivers, night and phosphorescent fashions