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A bit of
silicone and
circuitry rests.
Over time, it
is covered by
a strata of
silt and clay
and dead leaves.
Becomes
glitch-webbed
with fungi.
Grows a beard
of glistening moss.
Layers on a
mineral
eyeshadow
and eventually
ambles out
on hooves
of new wood,
ready for
the nightclub.
Polished aluminum
wonders what it's like
to become rooted,
to wear a suit
of tree bark.
Wonders what it's like
to circulate
the ichor of sap.
Wonders what it's like
to shoulder a shawl
of damp lichen.
Curious to smell
of bog fumes
and wood rot
at the next party,
rather than
alcohol swabs
and solder.
A smartphone
buzzes off to
the rocks
along a shore.
Wheezes through
lungfuls of ash
and considers how
to dance
as a caustic
lava bubble,
rather than
observe
as a cool
wallflower.
Yearning for
unscripted moments
of ferocious joy,
rushing between trees
with rapid shifts
of instinct,
rather than
the shadow of a
fax machine manual.
Yearning for
moments of
solitude,
to watch with
reflective eyes
glittering.
Casting back
the light
from cities.
silicone and
circuitry rests.
Over time, it
is covered by
a strata of
silt and clay
and dead leaves.
Becomes
glitch-webbed
with fungi.
Grows a beard
of glistening moss.
Layers on a
mineral
eyeshadow
and eventually
ambles out
on hooves
of new wood,
ready for
the nightclub.
Polished aluminum
wonders what it's like
to become rooted,
to wear a suit
of tree bark.
Wonders what it's like
to circulate
the ichor of sap.
Wonders what it's like
to shoulder a shawl
of damp lichen.
Curious to smell
of bog fumes
and wood rot
at the next party,
rather than
alcohol swabs
and solder.
A smartphone
buzzes off to
the rocks
along a shore.
Wheezes through
lungfuls of ash
and considers how
to dance
as a caustic
lava bubble,
rather than
observe
as a cool
wallflower.
Yearning for
unscripted moments
of ferocious joy,
rushing between trees
with rapid shifts
of instinct,
rather than
the shadow of a
fax machine manual.
Yearning for
moments of
solitude,
to watch with
reflective eyes
glittering.
Casting back
the light
from cities.