full moon & wall-e

the objects are waiting in different places, they are patient, tonight is the same
night as my whole life, the highway is and is not empty. wall-e flickers in
yesterday’s rain. what happens to the objects when I forget to think them. wall-e
never forgets, his care is expanding, is wall-e ever full or is desire. so many
desires moving on the highway, so long I can never think its end. the moon lusts
over the highway, a searchlight, and men drive to death in disgust. but wall-e is
patient & never full, each bequeaths a corpse in disgust & he swallows it. wall-e
makes more highway, there are too many highways to hold & they flicker, so
many objects in a line towards me from their horizons. which will point to a
clearing where I can sit.

Joshua Wilkerson's recent poems can be found or will soon appear in Dream Pop, Otoliths, Gone Lawn, and The Five Star Review. He is an MFA candidate at CUNY Brooklyn College, where he edits poetry and visual art for the Brooklyn Review.