shame creeps in, throttling you in the corner with your foolish dreams.

corner stone, braced for purpose. consider these ties that bind, arcane evolutionary shortcuts.

take heart in the thorny tryst, froth, jubilant, rises through the rain.

it's a lonely party, you terrify corridors, your grin is tearing holes in the earth.

how did you wash up, plastic coated, fuel injected gene edited remnant.

muffle the roar of the wind through the gully, tuck slim fingers through upright trees, strike formlessness into design.

the arm that falls open beckons in your future, visions, lovers and assassins.

your shirts are the blue backdrop of my attachment.

squint, and it's a lion's face, courage brews from the bottom when all is lost.

you dared me to hold the wire, all the strong language you could find and my hand stayed..

groomed for production, undone by the fallow years.

you mark here, a cross a sign of commitment to what?

today you can swim all the way around me, the water is unconditional.

the sun burns off the edges of vision, the blind centre of things throb.

the offer is always there

turning on the radio splinters the narrow beam.

pulling at the quick, hunger stripping the living from the life.

why this urge to delve into the dark, as other life pushes to flower into the light?

can you shine under the shadow?

sleep resting on the residue of all those prior walking talking days. holding nothing long enough to still.