Minerva System
12.05.10: Matt Hart City reading of “Minerva System” in The New York Times [Video]
1.
The city setsand once again
Burning of a deafening leafening
Upon you I imagine the petroleum
Rushing up from the drain in your watchtower
The weight and waste of a gone family doghouse
A gone dialoguea going going goner
Or a black-yellow finch on a tree branch screaming
Of lately and lightly, of flight you are blacking
Or blanking or covered in shadows
What’s your name, you wonderWhat’s mine
You don’t rememberSo once againReach out
The dust in your pajamasYou ask, O Marvel
Amend itCarry these failings of sand upon beaches
Stay within meWithin theeThe darkness protect us