Downtown Seattle

Will you look about? Open your eyes!
The city gleams gold in rainy light,
dazzling like donuts dunked in heavy cream,
and polka-dotted with rainbow sprinkles!

Carry on, upon the cement, skipping around the cracks
that cleave like spiderwebs upon your backbone!
Revel in your little-boy lust, the wanderlust that sets you
flying with dusty gravel in your wake!

Shame the land you run on, too scared to keep it's own pace,
turning it's paltry 1,000 mph, sea salt and crusty wind
scouring the pores of your face clean, washing you clean,
the dirt and grime of years of life dissolved to a beautiful, blank canvas;

Paint your expression as manic delight, flowering teeth
gleaming white, as steam rises delicately from your open mouth,
shouting challenges at seagulls who dare defy gravity while your own legs
churn up the earth like iron-pumping pistons!

Overtake the receding waves, spurred by Luna's pull,
thrust your arms into her white foam and pull up the hair of her soil,
lanky and green between your grasping, infant fingers,
laden with weighty strands of the ocean's inky depths,

Bury your face in the mirror surface, break the calm smoothness of glass,
shattering it's shards like seventy mirrors in seventy halls thrown to the floor
by every angry owner's king. Become the ruling body, adorn your head with sand,
and flow outward with the water to every corner of the bright, golden city.