the time of the rocket

By Akhil Srivastava

an appendage       fertile limb       grazing the skin 

               first then trampling the    grey cells         electrifying each other

     subcutaneous         fraying cubicles of the skin        pulling into 

breadth of the nose         closing suffocating        fucking        sucking      hair burning

at the thought of         1         trillion dollar american military budget        utopicripping fractalizing archive               of         river                                       jordan