Uneasy

     Uneasy

I do not cross the street to get a closer look (to menace, intrude)

I am able to not write that scene to continue 

in this 

uneasy

knowing a Camus moment is possible

an alignment of geological pressures coinciding

one one thousand is enough to realize to shift the focus quickly (to not dwell, not obsess)

take the finger off the trigger the eye from the object change the subject (not subject)

accept distrust of the solidity of the earth we stand on

allow the possible breach, an opening unexpected

a trembling rumbling inevitable but not time predictable

step off the curb with a surety the next earthquake will be felt

asperity and rupture: quakewriting

asperity

An asperity is an area on a fault that is stuck. The earthquake rupture usually begins at an asperity. 

- http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/glossary/?term=asperity



this is the lethal consequence of block, writers
words stuck behind the fingernail and retina, how
they build
up


forcefield   stockpile   kryptonitelock

part of myself clamping part of myself
as if somehow silencing would shut down the fount of truthing
this rubbing sanding clamping cramping bracing coerc
sing asperity troubling vexing vortexing rupturing out

sputter clench sputter clench press sprout
spring sling stout shout
tumbling rumbling fiercing forking flocking
word quake bursting out
rabblemassing crumble sassing Shasta bubbling
seesawing whipsawing magmagyrating
dirge-liloquy-abrupt-abruption
shimmyword shake eruption

temerity loquacity vivacity bulge force spout

like the pacific coastal mountains
I didn't know
who I was
how i was
til it all came out. 

EARTHQUAKE WEATHER

if I wake up just as you’re wrapping up your monologue

with a moaning mutter, a growl from below my tongue

that sets my toes and fingers trembling, my hand, leg,

epileptic apoplectic slapping against the floor, flailing

and beating like this skin itself is the leather, the rope

that snaps, beating the floor, oscillating, striking hard

enough to lift me into the air and slam me down again,

dropping books and crushing crystal glasses, ignorant,

tectonic, concussive, liver, intestine, spleen, gall—and

my lungs’ volume now screeched up to a deep scream,

Richter register violence knocking my self into a pulp—

and gone—like hot wind stealing away a piece of paper

on which is written the news, will you fetch it and read?

—FangO

Imunuri Prompt: Elemental - Earthquake

scribe an offering 
inspired by the element of earth, rock, earthquake

what shakes in you, what moves your bedrock, what grounds you, and where is the ground shifting under you? what, if shifted in shaking, would be pulverized by your tremors? write earthquake.

[you can try incorporating one or more of these words if you like:  http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/glossary/ ]

Tags: earthquake, epic-earth, poem, <poet's moniker>

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Epic-Earth on Imunuri: An ongoing series of earth-related prompts as part of an Imunuri experiment to dwell repeatedly on a theme and its riffs, and/or the possible poetry challenge, bit by bit, of producing an epic or body of poems...

Image source:   San Andreas Fault. Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons.