How To Explain

You feel fictional like felt, fuzzy,

Flaringly opaque, only really ever viable

Through peeps of rushed door creaks,

Rustling covers, elbows bowed against walls in

Attempted readjustment

Attempting to readjust

Stacked cups clinking back into their place of dilating

Dried up substance in rings like those of chopped tree trunks,

And the striated, lacquered Banyan beneath,

Beneath

The sort that don’t push the others back because of age like those of

Wrinkles do, folding, rolling, reaching to kiss its proximate indication,

Its proximate indication being that

When you refer to yourself as other than second person,

Another participle, an other person that inhabits your body, you can hear

You can hear

The flapping of the Wild Geese migrating

The sun rising, that the secular is religion,

The corporeal, incorporeal and in deafening chorus

In deafening chorus

You are at once visible via

Peaks through the vials,

At sonorous lapis, mounding peeks of snow, and

Everything above,

Through welling scleras and irises and pupils

Through welling scleras and irises and pupils

Each squelch remains a tick, ticking circularly, spheric and

Returning like winter’s first snow, its hissing and

Whistling and whirling insistent enough to listen,

Insistent enough to listen, but not quite loud enough to hear

The screech of machine washed wool the feeling of being

Snagged between what it means to want and what it means to

Not want anything

Not want anything,

As fiction.

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