Smash Palace

where you can break anything
take the shingles off the roof
put a foot through a window,
shatter the pane.

Take a door by the lintel,
tear out the frame
break and break and break
until the knuckles open into a lattice
that gleams
and the fingers
toes chest lungs and breathing body
are a
Smash Palace.

Make something new of it.
Place pieces in
inconsistent places.
Put the door into the windowframe
hinges erased.
Make foot
prints
in the dust
covering a floor
composed of a wrinkled glass sheet.
Here, where shingles complete countertops
and bedboards make basementfloors
here
begin building
a new heart.