Gears that Grind


Can you be moved,
to me,
from you,
to unison?

When I turn these gears for you,
will you move?

me. you. to mute configurations
It is not the where we knew

Can you be moved to me,
we, cleaved
we, as one machine?

I want the way it never was
The way we never were

before. void pulled us to
before. when neither were elusive
When neither needed more

Moving, we
the dead machinery
we
the gears that breach
the rusting core

When I turn these gears for you, will you move?

forbearance and forgetting
gears
we yield to this precision
to machine
to the hum
we will become

~

Lynn Alexander
Michael J. Solender

notes on the process