she says you know when you're in the city and you look up up past city skylines, cool-blue city skylines and glimmering casino lights, flashing bright colors and distant groaning-moaning sounds of urban life-- you know you look up and you see a broad swath blanket starlight whole ocean of obscured depths light pollution battering against heavenly doors when you walk against the tide of the one way streets like wading into seas aphrodite's foam licking at your ankles subterranean sewer sighing moaning soft whispering murmuring up through the grates waving about in the subatmospheric air beneath the skyline curtain, like anchored seaweed did you know she says lift your arms and plunge your hands into the skyline abyss (light pollution) (deepdark monsters sparkling with want) immersed to the wrists in lost dreams fled to the aether the gods of the forest are gone but the spirits linger tar-black and wet and clinging to street signs and truckbeds
the otherworld leaking into the city
