out there on the muggy shores of the dead sea,
I felt the ground shake and move beneath me.
out there in black mud and heavy air,
salt dissolved
and itched
and tangled
my hair.
I went there to be moved and out in the desert,
Pangaea herself seemed to tremble with hurt.
With purpose I fled to the ends of the world,
And heedless, Mama earth, her warnings she hurled.
“Flee if you must,” Mama P said,
“but the escape you must know,
is all in your head.”
Fling your net as far as you desire,
but no airplane or dream
escapes the wrath of her fire.
Garbanzo Bae 