After Noise

and who are you now in this different blue space without pain remarking on chemtrails and snowmelt,   misreading the “sea” whose letters cease to arrive remain transfixed in midflight       turbulent coasts aloft as a principle of life-- count invisible clams under nameless sands cut apostrophes into the air     announcements send far-flung greetings to strangers for days keep the magma enigma at bay        daily joys effaced vaporous pale generous smoke rising so cling to the dark hand inside you its basalt fingers, rounded