levitating on the toilet
thinking of my father
who pontificated once
about colonics.
everyone is walking
around disgusted
with themselves
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he said, but we’re all
pink inside.
dad, why?
see, i’m always asking
for more information so
this is where you urge
my milking stop. urge
the orchestra quiet.
place a salty finger on the lips
of the pulpit.
finally shhhhhh me
into the blue-black
quiet of unknowing
where I am counting
beans or shucking corn.
skinning rabbit looking
up to say i have no idea
how to — shhhhhhhh.
alone in the tar black quiet.
Noelle Armstrong is a poet from California. She writes about weirdo children, sticky friendships, queer persistence, mind warping, made-up rituals, evangelical madness, fun apocalypses, psychic fears, swan boats, ecosystem collapse, interspecies friendship, and comforts with a spike inside.
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