the morning darker now, day's opaquement growing and foreign, a lichen on the stratosphere, furry and colonial, draping the blue in a gray wolf fur color moss— I used to think this was a metaphor for living, and it stayed consistent, the mold ***** into my ears and eyes I remembered reading once in ancient Egypt a hook used through the nose was to extract the brain
my cerebellum quells and throbs Its own moldy dogged lobotomy.