Another Tunguska

I emerged as if through a narrowed eye
 into lashes of white sun from your apartment
 and pollen clouds held absent sound
 in gutted buildings we pray bridges and causeways
 curl fast again like slap bracelets
 and the skyline resets to a bare, hushed wilderness
 I worship the day of the invisible wave
 then a stream of revenants surged outward
 like prominences from the sun
 1927 an explosion
 another Tunguska
 and at once I was flat on my back
 my skateboard rolled on down the hill
 the congregating deer stood stock still
 in the corridor of manicured lawns
 remember you and I would get so high
 we'd pass out with our shoes on
 first light through leaves
 this was back when my smoke would juke
 and stutter in the highway crossbreeze