Electric Tree
touch this cracking tree
and die
become an outlet
in the sky
circuit branches
sear the air
they haveth cinders
everywhere
Note: The phrase "haveth cinders everywhere" in the last line of my poem is my corruption of a famous line in James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake *(1939) which alludes to the fact that Joyce's protagonist/world-dreamer, H.C Earwicker (whose dream Finnegan's Wake actually is) is also known as "Here Comes Everybody." It is also said of him that he "haveth childers (i.e. children) everywhere." Earwicker's "childers" became my "cinders."
