ants in every orifice trapped under top layer of tightening skin,
claustrophobia in the midst of empty football fields.
hands shaking like trees during katrina,
heart rattling around in chest like ribcage is made from bars in a profitable prison.
indefinite shock accompanying the split second before falling off every chair high enough to deconstruct.
teeth chattering in thousand degree weather; too hot for clothes, too cold for anything else.
a million romans with daggers for fingers that were never really there at all.
itches too deep to pinpoint,
not in skin but in bones.