30 April: "Be More Like Bjork" by Camille Guthrie

 
"Be More Like Bjork"

First sew yourself into a pom pom mushroom

Strut across the thirstland past faerie lights

Shout complaints inside volcanic mancaves

Scout for the last unlocated spring of ylem

Then plait a cottage out of kestrel fluff

Stir potato eyes into a vat of dislocated feelings

Write a luculent novel five winters long

Till dismay ferments enough nuclear energy to power

Your moon buggy beyond the nacaret fields

Stopping only to gather the pollen of the Umbiferous True

Then plunge over cliffs sporting moth wings

Dropping to the bottommost of the besprinkled sea

And make your way up through the rain shadow

On two cat feet in hostile territory

All the while you compose a callithumpian song

To nail a ritual within the astrobleme

So bend dragons and constellate your enemies

Fox on your shoulder spend a month sun-grazing

A hundred hawks exploding before your stride

Which will bring you luck on this godawful day

You must make a new life by yourself like all

Lurching tellurians stuck in eviternity