Tunguska

I woke up in the late afternoon

From a dream in which I left you

And the ceiling teemed with gold surface tension

Skipping off my neighbor's pool

A hiker's ghost, a halo

Your face was resting damp on my chest

Fever clouded eyes

What's next to my head

So of course you knew

You'd dreamed it too

I emerged as if through a narrowed eye

Into lashes of white sun

From your apartment

And pollen clouds

Held absent sound

Then a stream of revenants surged outward

Like prominences from the sun

1927, an explosion

Another Tunguska

And at once I was flat on my back

And my skateboard rolled on down the hill

And all the congregating deer

Stood stock still

In the corridor of

Manicured lawns

Remember you and I'd get so high

We'd pass out with our shoes on

First light through leaves

This was back when my smoke would juke

And stutter in the highway crossbreeze