Caroline Cabrera
I Need Constant Access to the Visual Thesaurus
Animals taking different shapes
to look more or less animal
ladies undressed into twiggy birds
what more can you ask
than my rapt attention
I follow a train of images back to my own name
and still have trouble picturing my face
without a mirror
husband you are floating features too and everywhere
I've ever been an undocumented wash
husband is to globe as cat is to blueprint of the house
my brain ignores my nose perpetually in purview
I make a map of thoughts you uttered
while asleep
and another of feelings
we try
but cannot voice
I tracked your hormones
on sheet music
you make a smart ditty
I require your shape