BIKE/BUILDING

by Devon Balwit

 

 

electric, my frame

            casement, sill, pedestal, pillar
            static,
            a geometry of holding up

blue, my color intermediate,
as of sky or sea on a sunny day

            concrete cloaked rebar,
            wrought iron,
            brick against brick

set your crotch on me
work me to a furious pedal

            ink-stained sky
            pierced by chimney and spire—
            dwellings’ exhausted exhalation

my irregular polygons
pump lust

            regularity in infinite regress,
            stolid,
            cautious aspiration

careen,
tilt,
bounce
           
            bored windows refuse to open,
            finished
            with human striving

park me, panting,

against the nearest fence

 

 

 

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