strange gravity

there were strange things to recollect
as first recollections
like white rocks at sunset
a desolate waterfall
green! life.
it’s all i know
and it’s all nominal
everything’s nominal
i’m nominal
you’re nominal
and the water doesn’t really fall
it just nominates toward town.
strange things to recollect
la oroya of all places
and morococha—
i had to look it up
because i couldn’t even remember what it was called.
just pictures.
tired, static pictures.
a nominal town
for a nominal traveler.
nominal nominal nominal.
of course morococha is here tonight
4,500 meters above the level of the sea
where there’s less to breathe
because gravity has been busy putting it all down by that sea.
see?
the pearl that i don’t remember
and the family that i do.
strange gravity
in a first floor room.
strange gravity
and strange patterns
that those nominatives conform to, i guess.
conform isn’t a nominal
but it seems to be about the right kind of verb.
eat fish for a few cents more
feel them in your stomach
still swimming around
happy and free.
the fish are filled with good things
and with mercury.
thanks, industry,
for precious metals and toxic fish
that swim around in my stomach
happy and free.
white rocks
for cell phone reception!
they were right there
underneath me
forty feet.
ants.
dance.
dance for the phone reception—
to catch its eye over the low, ominous mountains.
just rest
be still be
together
a part
apart
up, art!
big tree,
comforter,
lightning-struck and tired
gentle rainfall
(lightning struck! sounds promising
for rain shelter).
rain falls
why?
strange.
gravity, strange gravity
inattentive.
squirrels!
not even a joke
strange
gravity-stricken.
a bump in the road maybe
me
i just in case
bump…
bump.
carry on. carrion? carry on carrion. care, eon!
carry on!
bump…
bump.
orbit! one
application of force away from freedom
if to be free
is to violate the heartless rules
(or constraints!)
of this strange gravity.