Dana Levin

A I P R

Refuge Field

You have installed a voice that can soothe you: agents
of the eaten flesh, every body

a cocoon of change —

Puparium. The garden
a birthing house, sarcophagidae —

And green was so dark in the night-garden, in the garden's
gourd of air —

green's epitome
of green's peace, the beautiful inhuman

leg-music, crickets'
thrum —
a pulse