In the middle of the map they put Medea.

As if to say of the site DO NOT ENTER.

As if to admit how they had provoked her.
HAZCHEM: a warning almost invocation.

Lord of the poison, sacred their mission.

That nuclear familiar wasp-sting of a sign.
She: triangle or angular. She: triangulating

all causes, all histories, all laws and all lines,

infectious connections she chews to the horizon.

Late Old English curs, of unknown origin;

no word of similar form and sense is known in Germanic, Romanic, or Celtic.
rising from aquifers salt ghost vengeful

kinstrife betrayal voices persistent

crying out birth scars here’s your physician
open cut mouth or slickwater microfractures

“reducing friction” right in the womb
take that motherfucker take that kidkiller

white ulcer written on living tissue

skulls in museums labelled in cursive
An utterance consigning, or supposed or intended to consign, (a person or thing)
hashtag/gash/gulp/pulp

rape rape rape is an “insult

to our [his] honour” is

to spiritual and temporal evil, the vengeance of the deity, the blasting of
the sticking-of in is the politics

of take, saying “virgin land” saying

peak oil Peak oil PEAK oil does it

malignant fate, etc. It may be uttered by the deity, or by persons supposed
get you hot (like to wallow) follow follow

the shockwaves to swim in poison calling

leak at every turn, shale the safe stuffed

to speak in his name, or to be listened to by him.
w/

nothing

but

In its various uses the opposite of blessing.
sweet raintrickle through earthskin

whisper the dry through

wordmaps cave to cave place to place
serpent blood

pooling in dark/worldthroat

speaking its slow song
living water living stone the upthrust living

nets of whole
you take it in your steely hand

saying “mine”

mine it
under

mine
umber

amber

sand &

ochre
no

yoke

choke

hold

no

“no”
aerial map the veins

             break the vessel open

                        suck out the blood

discard the husk
             songtalk lovetouch story

drying leaves in the wind

             carcass fell & rot
                        and yet

still red still hot

lips still singing
shesong snaketongue to

gather            

sweetgrass       

loosestrife       

lady’s bedstraw    
all our names lovegiven

all our names soft pretties

& complex experiment

 

on our            
lipstills(t)inging

the nettle of grasp/gasp/rasp/

but

             sap rISing