salt-stained and
sphinctered.
knuckles caress,
knife-edge, shatter,
smatter, scatter
into fume & living dust.
grasp and then
break, tendons
inching beyond
possibility
rupture & tear apart.
sickle daydreams
shatter into flame
in your back garden.
they watch the spectacle
with mouths unmoving
and eyes unseeing.
you flutter & break.
your heart is raw inside.
you perfume & coalesce.
salt-stained and
sphinctered.
never real
to begin with.
