when i wake up, stretching arms like the grass growing on chain link fences sometimes it seems that the sad steady algebra will cease acting like a string of overturned shopping carts pointing out their wheels to the things we lack the means to work through outside ourselves
after the cries of birds have stopped turning our lives into the words we write always frightened by the sound of my own voice and haunted by these things or the memory of them that constantly calls my name from the four corners of my head so persistently so recite from broken bibles on some street corner
climbing tall trees, all the things as a child i tried to keep from the hands of fears with the weight of dead leaves that're dealed mouths and eyes hold the well orchestrated imagery we're told creating myths, that we hold on tightly as our own