Vortex

As the wind unscatters me

Spindle hurricanes unwind

Direction from my horizontal eye





Blow down the ocean’s fences

And approach my wreckless remnant

Bones bedenizened by birds:





Or contrive a moment from

Whatever sheaf of breath remains

To edge a word along a wind-left wall.

Credit

From Tau by Philip Lamantia and Journey to the End by John Hoffman, edited by Garrett Caples © 2008 by City Lights and Nancy Peters for the Estate of Philip Lamantia. Reprinted with the permission of City Lights Books.