Song in Tammuz

An exploration of desire, displacement, and longing.

“…I want to ring the lone bell 
in the back of your throat, you’d tell her 

as if you were climbing the blue- 
domed church in Santorini on the hottest day, 

thumbing the cool caper buds, tomatoes 
yellow & green on their vines—what grows

wild after long desolation. I want to ring
the lone bell in the back of your throat,

you’d tell her suspecting, it isn’t
the chiming we want but the echo.

What shapeshifts & stuns, then stays 
burning through us— “

‍ ‍– from “Campanology