fencing fields linger shimmering in array
bodies of balm awash in broad sustain
contacts list in the drifting wake
listening wide awake
breathing in this situation
is like the final sit up
slowly gnashing teeth
bad bad bad
fist slamming into hand
bad bad bad
incorporation shot in the neck
clenched to suffocation
vertebrate in the back
severed everything pain
was it silence wanted
reduced to a grimace
in quicksand
play
presently south
head west
breaking north
face east
trapped and furious
faded and steady
he kept his cool in a set up
keeping it close to the chest
goading to pass the time
about his rank and station
do you not understand
you are a tiger in the cage
that cannot be saved she says
the cage that needs to go
ol’ nick altaring history in hours afternoon
god tier hitler in a flat
through the jungle monsoon
laying upwind from offshore
salty aroma of fresh fish from twilight
caught in a fright like ghosts passerby
hosting in heaven
guessing in hell
when the moment arrives
kiss it gently hello
let it all come
love let it flow
where the moment goes
kiss it gently goodbye
let it all out
let it flow love
with seven minutes of preparation
in my madness
i acted out a comedy routine
as if my life depended on it
taking the time i needed to prepare
everything sustained within
mind made up beforehand
no conversations left to spin
not knowing who is watching who
eidolon go away
the long roaming hungry eidolon
in throat resoundingly clear
fueled by fear with no reason to believe
stripped bare in the most inelegant way
still as though a grim whale
in the wink of an eye in size and stature
greater presence more felt than relieved
speaking with terrifying slight of hand
feeling certain honor on the surface
being at the end and destruction
from far communicating
messages sung with meaning
near to touch
a hierarchy of sound