For Your Eyelash Anchored to the Sky Lyrics
I am riding backward through Michigan toward Chicago.
I am thinking of a specific place in time.
A smashed caterpillar somehow on a windshield.
Somehow, otherhow.
I am always wishing you were here.
I am thinking of a general place in time.
I was watching a boot fill up with blood — and I said nothing.
A school of geese: each one turns to a door when I touch your hand.
What can we say to the inside of a piano?
Can you play it with your teeth?
I am tying a typewriter to my leg with a heavy piece of thread.
Because I do not want to be dragged to the bottom.
I do not want a chain to drag me down.
I want to watch you laughing down from the pier.
I want to breathe fire only to see my reflection in your iris.
Your left iris. The one sculpted from a thousand tiny feathers.
I am thinking of a specific place in time.
A smashed caterpillar somehow on a windshield.
Somehow, otherhow.
I am always wishing you were here.
I am thinking of a general place in time.
I was watching a boot fill up with blood — and I said nothing.
A school of geese: each one turns to a door when I touch your hand.
What can we say to the inside of a piano?
Can you play it with your teeth?
I am tying a typewriter to my leg with a heavy piece of thread.
Because I do not want to be dragged to the bottom.
I do not want a chain to drag me down.
I want to watch you laughing down from the pier.
I want to breathe fire only to see my reflection in your iris.
Your left iris. The one sculpted from a thousand tiny feathers.
About
Genius Annotation
Adam Clay is the author of A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World (Milkweed Editions, 2012) and The Wash (Parlor Press, 2006). A third book of poems, Stranger, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. He co-edits TYPO Magazine and lives in Kentucky.
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