The Floor Is Yours
By Fady Joudah
My chicken pox hotel
your machine gun pointillism
My bamboo branch severed but nimble name
in the air of two alphabets
Picassos in bull-light routine
Your mantis welded on a pole
with a spiral staircase
my romance between pillager and villager
timed & timely intensity
inversely proportional to frequency
the chickadees in my voice
the thrush in your mouth
our polymers of I skipping
their archipelago stones
Your touchscreen
my ringtone heart
Your mahogany gift bag
puffed with confetti
my songs to appear as gauze
for a new island
Source: Poetry (January 2016)