Reconstruction

.…through broken
columns
marble
white
geometric
ruins in a coastal sunlight                   
and Mediterranean     
sky      Ahgreyeuss walks    
past women    in pairs   
into current
life       and courtyard      a dark
thin woman       and a blond
fleshy woman      of forty
years or more        They are walking
                                                 the sharp edge
of history           Pahn’s mind
                                                 is empty       He turns
and tears restraint                                                            
knocking the women
                                                             unconscious
dragging
desire to the water                                                                 
without concern           holding
                                                     them
up clasping
                                                     around them    from behind
floating            amplexus          dying                                          
in the chlorinated pool         rubbery
                                       bleached…

…awakening on the shore     dressed
and smiling     they walk away                            
                                                      undreaming
the past             leading Ahgreyeuss
into the bedroom
             where he awakens
again from forgotten   limbs                                                     

…

In the loft of a beach house     Nomioss consoles
but scolds       the windows
                                                                                        high and blue
the house empty

Out in the sea                                                                              
a swell forms driving                                                
into the shore    
                                                 upsetting the house
                                                     leaving              a cloudy
                             sky      and muddy        waters           broken
                                                     glass                  and driftwood
                             the cool                            satisfied
aftermath of a storm                 
                                   a new beach                       Ahgreyeuss and
                                                           Nomioss are
right side up
in the deserted
air breathing it
in with sea spray
walking thoughtlessly
realizing abruptly
               that people       must have been           hurt—
they go to the bluffs                                                     
finding many casualties
and many half buried
embedded in the mud            still alive—
the brothers wash         them
and dress         them
The brothers are calling for help                                              
when 
           an angry
sheriff stops   them
telling the brothers to leave   the survivors
                             there

…

When Ahgreyeuss gets to town
                          the earth begins to shake
and things to fall                                                 
                                            He wonders
if it is safer     inside                                         
                                  or out   but nowhere
is safe                                      
there are many people
gathered          by a giant      
                                      computer with lights
          bells
                     buttons
                        knobs
and a crystal ball             glowing
                                                         intermittently

Pahn squeezes
the ball             rubbing          feeling
like the captain          of a ship  unsure
that his actions will stop         the shaking                             

                                                     The townspeople taunt him
saying                                           
that he doesn’t know what he is

                                                    doing
but rain
begins to fall
                                               and he continues
                                                             to rub        certain
now         that the swaying
will stop          and the rain will fall heavily
into the soil    until
it freezes      

Pahn is wondering       if it was his own power or a coming
into harmony            or a greater     force
or an accident
               when
Ahnjehlia drives                   
                                                  up in a dark blue         car

and she drives with Ahgreyeuss

                                    off by the great waves      the clouds
that move        down to light              the earth

the snow coming    to cover
                                                              her body