Decommissioning the Road In

that part living human made

dammed or cut, a lack

of flow in the elements of knowledge

relegated to charts and boardroom

sludge, tailings and run-off clogged

with the residue of ire

to remove the road’s meaning

from here to there the trans-

port a running over, a spill-

way tread deep into the layered

stories of who and what before

rail, pipe, asphalt, ATV

tracks all to get what’s to be got

out of other concerns duly

noted in the consultation process

that living flow is nonhuman

made and divisible by measures,

an unknown technology and

narrative turn just where the road

thought it was stable, before the new

mythology told it why.