monsoon

Bareback ceaselessly into the past
low sodium tropical hot dogs,
what do they know about what’s constricting in all of us?
Lined up before payday
you can’t lose your second shadow at noon
I can sleep to dream, but it takes waking to remember

In this valley you don’t need rain to smell petrichor
the dew point is enough
if you're' awake to feel it’s lost ocean press you down
toward discarded plant oil reawakened

I think we should get a third set of teeth,
later in life
once we really,
really know to appreciate them.
It could be as simple as a single roof molar
with tongue pestle
grow fins as boat marked mermaids.

Chase Allgood
2025