this is hell to be got out of

unpitied strip unpeeling
in the massive heat



      there is old
      order here

      the earth
      has spat it



            copper slats
            as green in rock
            as gold goes red



the mind
turns back to meet in veins
the scale

                              as the landscape
                              tunes it up



                        we were heated
                        in the system

                                    then
                                    got stuck
                                    accounting



            the surprise of it
            so constant
            it became inhabitable