Idea for An Echo
Christine Hume
you go there without
into the deer's skull
you recognize inside
trash wind-thrown
laughter released
camouflaged as thin air
something's piss into
child on a cliff spreads
the faithless shrub
only snatches of shade
and a love of difficulty
as the height of the cliff
What does laughter
you thought water
Where will you hide
When does he
breath pushes the face
one of them
looking a road split
reverses the Russian olives' leaves
your body, any body
against the chain link fence
into your head
the mountain lichenized
half fish half house half running
slantwise from shallow holdfast
grows out of sheer rock and crack
that take up the map of flowing
grows as deep
which depends on the bird who lives there
look like when it's entered your body?
curling under ice would be safe
his voice?
light your ear?
before you into two and you think
one of them

