Tactile Value

from crush and splinter
death in the market

jeering robotic
dry-ice disrupt

to conjure this:
perishing
persistent script

scratched-up smeared
and torn

let hair, nail cuttings
nourish the vine and fig tree

let man, woman
eat, be sheltered

…

Marx the physician laid his ear
on the rhythmic heart

felt the belly
diagnosed the pain

did not precisely write
of lips roaming damp skin

hand plunged in hair bed-laughter
mouth clasping mouth

(what we light with this coalspark
leaving instantly in us
if it continue)