Walk Like an Egyptian

Something is in the air
              (disembodied freeway overpasses
                                                palace steps
                              pterodactyl egrets

like pieces of seashell clouds
in the mumbling cokebottle green latitudes
cutting thru yr brain like a dorsal fin
in the water just outside the reef

At Las Palmas you can score a taco plate for $5.95
              just the thing as you memorize the footnotes
                                                in The Book of the Dead
                              while the air spins around you
                                                                full of telepathic plum
                                                blossoms & empty beer cans

at the edge of something anyway
(OCEAN) diamond-cut emerald-feathered plumes
the sawtooth shoreline
& the long way home