Switches
Identification never asked to be connection
never claimed such an occupation
Identification casts off synonyms, hyperbole
predicative nominative
lost its copula
threw away stative verbs
Instead comes to prevent missed connections
correct misconnections
prays for disconnect
to find peace
* * *
Response wakes up
calls call
gets no answer
Switches from monologue
to soliloquy
And This Is Why
Dreams graze on ghosts
and have since wind
became breath.
Over burned matter
brought fertile again
future’s erected
ghosts beneath.
Sleep is for haunting.
Desire is terror’s
idle hands.
Verge joining
dreamy teeth
to phantasmal grassy tips
Connective tissue
of sleep
and specter
Give muscle memory and aftertaste
of work
storing its grievances
in shoulders.
As beds are of no relief,
repose
only lets re-enter
the gone
and forlorn
tasked to give sensibility
to pain.
Outscapes
translation stayed up late
to claim something
with too many tears to count
years spent in glyphs
seventh sense
rose up
blossom in gut
for sensation sake
to hear translation’s plea
