Concert - Tucson Cutsogeorge

ten million immured suns rolling off beautiful skin-canvas,

coursing in-between insulated wiry brushes illuminating accents of life.

i see it through the keratin fencing,

half-slopes of humanity frame my senses–

bobbing, nodding, leaning, rocking–

silhouetted but so full, details inescapable

iron plate bends my back, hips so slightly off kilter,

but i have taken root, calves twisted like ivy

around corinthian columns

whispers, soft smiles, exulted collaboration,

the barrier impassable yet i can rest my hand upon its marker in the earth.

i wish to enter

the cicadas chirp, plucking elongated emotions as memory.

words ground up into mnemonic medicine:

where does it all go?

it enters through holes in my fingertips.

it courses into and out of tearducts, a delayed reverb.

it shatters blood vessels

i find everything looking into those ten million suns

and those that reflect them

Tucson Cutsogeorge is a current senior at the University at Albany, although he will be graduated by the time of publication. He is one of two ARCH Interns, running the publication alongside Shaya Bock. He is an English major, Film minor, and believer in the universality of art.