mammoth 

we were the last 
of the woolly mammoths

tusks stolen from dead gods--
fur thick with the heat 
of pre-history--

i want to sleep with you--

heavy & frozen--

foot steps shaking 
earth--

& centuries later 
the ground will shake 

with what was the meandering
of my body--

i want to make a carcass
to be found--

when our children resurrect 
themselves in cave paintings
i will know it is time 
to stop roaming--

the continent 
is as small as the face of
a dime--

we know time &
we know where this is going--

where the soil will yield 
towers & man will
fuck the raw earth--

spear & bare foot--

stolen for art--
hands on cave walls--

whose history are we then?

eaten in the fascination
of soil soft skin--

it was i who felt 
the pyramids grow-- felt their
stones hoisted in the hot desert--

felt the pharaohs gold--

the embalming fluid
emptied into the sand--

we are not so different

we white sand & red snow--

in my joints i felt the face of
the sphinx surface in
my wide soul--

i do not ask 

where the others are--

skeletons pounding the 
permafrost like drums--

i want to ask what will 
become of these skulls--

these vessels of snow centuries--

be gentle with us--

weight is not an indication
of anger--

we were quiet here--

felt your birth & gathered
in between cliffs to whisper
our premonitions--

our death had always been
known-- loved--

a kind of weather
beyond the boundaries
of dry & arid--

i dreamed myself 
as a gold king--

in the entrance of the cave
when the ice came
to sculpt me--

& in my head i could
hear your songs--

the ones you used tp
build fortresses

& in my vertabrae
i felt you finding me again--

a specimen of fear--

be gentle be gentle
we knew you 

with your naked pink bodies--

crawling on all
fours from the divide
between the tigress in euphrates

be gentle--

you children with fingers--

oh if you could
wear my corpse what kinds

of stories we
could tell

you & me on the floor
of the cave--

tusks stolen from 
the dead gods--

tell me human

what pyramids are you building?
what bodies 

will you leave for the caves?