i emerged as if through narrowed eyes into lashes of white sun from your apartment and pollen clouds held absent sound in gutted buildings we pray bridges and causeways curl fast again like slap bracelets and the skyline resets to a bare hushed wilderness i worship the day of the invisible wave then a stream of revenants surged outward like prominences from the sun 1927 an explosion another tunguska and at once i was flat on my back my skateboard rolled on down the hill the congregating deer stood stock still in the corridor of manicured lawns remember you and i would get so high we d pass out with our shoes on first light through leaves this was back when my smoke would juke and stutter in the highway crossbreeze