
centerless spheres
ricochet
off
borders
of
infinite
regress
the softer the hit
the farther they click-
clack
into the fold
of bottomless
reverb
and the scent
of the vague odor
echoes
forth
from an evaporated
childhood
centerless spheres
ricochet
off
borders
of
infinite
regress
the softer the hit
the farther they click-
clack
into the fold
of bottomless
reverb
and the scent
of the vague odor
echoes
forth
from an evaporated
childhood
a blanket
slipped
into a barrier
tumbling
down a hole
in a gesture
lost
without a trail
of sand
to slurp up
with both hands
the blanket on a thread makes a bed where threadless threads pour from the head unless cut short the blanket ceases to omit the unfit feet that cry floor but cannot follow the thread through the open door in the bottomless bed of a threadless head
When I was older and lived on the anonymous side of town, I'd find a private hidden room in a forgotten building and simulate a multitude of escapes, but as the years grow younger, the perimeter shrinks. The resources dwindle. And the chair stiffens for the man made now of loose belts who begs, "Adorn me with one more place to dream of cages."
dislocated bodies
slosh back and forth
on the bleeding deck
distended bladders
gush
into darkness
elongated vertebrae
clunk
through steel eyes
enmeshed sacs of meat
sway
under airborne scissors
exhausted fibers
hun loosely
in the hull
embittered plumes
strum out
beloved chords
lost to the deep
erratic eyebrows on the tail of a pendulum a rickety grin in the pocket of a scaffold a swinging uvula between the posts of a vestige a sweaty pate under the loop of a lethal yo-yo
milk circles
spore constellations
ground sponges
wet, molten,
striated,
and stretched
the outer ring
is the center
horse glutes gunfire
action
horse mane
braids
horse chompers apple
toothpick hay
horse hoof horseshoe
rubber
horse eyes celestial
orbs
horse gallop sliced mechanical
bread
split across polyester screens cut by the echo of feathers divided into coffee stains hewn down to gestural stubs
two chasms
straddled
territories
denuded
containers
emptied
machines
stripped
rib cages
busted
endless purposes
await