Another Tunguska

I emerged as if through a narrowed eye

Into lashes of white sun from your apartment

And pollen clouds held absent sound

In gutted buildings we pray bridges and causeways

Curl fast again like slap bracelets

And the skyline resets to a bare, hushed wilderness

I worship the day of the invisible wave

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

My skateboard rolled on down the hill

The congregating deer stood stock still

In the corridor of manicured lawns

Remember you and i would 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