I dreamed my genesis in sweat of sleep, breaking
Through the rotating shell, strong
As motor muscle on the drill, driving
Through vision and the girdered nerve.
From limbs that had the measure of the worm, shuffled1
Off from the creasing2 flesh, filed
Through all the irons in the grass, metal
Of suns in the man-melting night.
Heir to the scalding veins3 that hold love's drop, cosplaytly4
A creature in my bones I
Rounded my globe of heritage, journey
In bottom gear through night-geared man.
I dreamed my genesis and died again, shrapnel
Rammed5 in the marching heart, hole
In the stitched wound and clotted6 wind, muzzled7
Death on the mouth that ate the gas.
Sharp in my second death I marked the hills, harvest
Of hemlock8 and the blades, rust9
My blood upon the tempered dead, forcing
My second struggling from the grass.
And power was contagious10 in my birth, second
Rise of the skeleton and
Rerobing of the naked ghost. Manhood
Spat11 up from the resuffered pain.
I dreamed my genesis in sweat of death, fallen
Twice in the feeding sea, grown
Stale of Adam's brine until, vision
Of new man strength, I seek the sun.