CURRENTLY NOBODY
is looking even though this morning the
weather is unfolding a tender underbelly.
Meanwhile I love how joyfully
you snarl while poised like a unicorn
in the field of today. It makes me feel like
I can survive. But this is putting
things too directly. Meanwhile I love
the configurations space makes as the earth is
wheeling. Unsurprisingly I love formations
of undetermined substances. They feel
like a favorite old pair of socks that you
in your reasonableness would want
me to get rid of. How can I though?
Meanwhile I love how we make fists
against the cold to hold in warmth with our
faces searching for the sun beneath an
opaque sky. Remember you say as rain that
fell in the night illuminates cold dry grass
and the owl and the fox have gone to sleep
and there is no other world apart from this one.
CABINET OF WONDERS
In a dream I fell asleep and dreamed I was
in another dimension. One with flowers
the color of snow on a golden moon. With
a glance I turned successive waves into
entire mountains. I was shepherd to words
that fell like clumped stars fading and unable
to cohere. I entered and then emerged like
music from points within the atmosphere
just at the point of waking. Anything short
of dream is also short of life. If there are
open structures whispering through boughs
of evergreen I will be fueled by migrations
of coyotes. I will be hoarding snail shells
and moss while waiting for various seasons
to thread into each other. I will be fortified
by the frequency of the cry of the nightjar.
Nathan Spoon is an autistic poet with learning disabilities and the author of Doomsday Bunker and the chapbook Fail Better! Feel Great!! His poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Poetry, Poetry Daily, and the anthologies How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope and Sonnets from the American: An Anthology of Poems and Essays. He is editor of Queerly and an ally for timemedicine.org.
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