know food & home r interchangeable.
once u learn this, ull love better. have more mercy
in each other & own heavy bonishness.
we worms span the continental covenental states
& never cheat a promise. we r larger
than cup of coffee u pray to drown in
every morning & r larger than ur cancers.
we break mountain into constituent bits.
we worms tire of irradiated sludge, sleep bad
there, rest best in rich brown humus,
where words humble & humiliation
take root (like living things) in gorg finality
of dirt. it is magnetic & repulsive
& our turning squirming ways. it tastes like blood
but u wouldnt know. we’ll tell.
vitality & oak. we r always early. we wake
before birds (late risers) & risk death
to dance when it rains. worth it,
some worship in the downpour. we worms
eat our dead. don’t pretend u dont. we bury
in own perfect bodies. if more of
u was stomach, ud find it easier, digesting
all that life. terrible to be human, only 1/7 length
in ur esophagus. bad bad ratio. be honest—
how many times u choke?
we worms had snapping jaws & grew three feet long,
just 400 million years ago. we worms have memories
super old. god pitied, loved u best, made us smaller
so ud survive us. so wed only get u in the grave.
we worms feel our way through dark. we r gut
and we r proud. falter has no translation
in our prostomium. we sweat cement, we pave
paths through own excretion. ur trams built
by engineers to follow maps by cartographers
to places already pioneered. intricate networks of
futility— what fuses them if not ur fluids?
we worms shape the earth shapes us. we r world’s
beating line-shaped heart asquiggle. we r tunnel
traversing tunnel, mini subways in the subway
cars, tubes in tubes, hurricanes blowing in eyes
of hurricanes. ur meteorologists r flustered.
they r red blushing in the cheeks.
ur technographicbioeconomists split us in half
and learn why u all invented mirrors— to see body
in perfect two like ours, to look towards self
and pretend at equality of parts.
ur story is lopsided ribs and woman built from man.
u penetrate & thrust. we worms lie together    overlap.
we cling & wriggle. trade sperm. we give
what we receive. barter with no currency.
we do not know market value. we know
earthen hold of own eggs. we worms invert
ourselves & gulp happily & we do not call this sex
love   marriage. together we r everything
needed and need itself.
we do not call this wholeness.
we r not partial.