Missing like the Sun behind clouds you leave this Earthbound place Separated in your mind and In time and space Phases of emotion Cycles of feeling Is this sensation waning Waxing crescent tears and smiles Fitted like a scarf around my neck and I'll be dragging it for miles Tethered weathered potions of foxglove, laurels and daffodils dripped in ink, wrapped in linen Caught on cameras Scratched and bitten Amusement parks with twirling horses Blinking signs Ferris wheels Popcorn on the scratchy ground Looking past that merry go round And thought I saw a smokey mirror a reflected window of blue sky and all I could muster to say was "high" It sounded like a music box It traced like constellations It's seashells penetrated my mind That's why, my friend, you can't find where it is I'm wandering Gripples on my arm and all along my collarbone and down my spine like a slide It's all angles "Be a triangle" And sudden like a collision hard in the pit of my ribs I say the words I've screamed inside and they escape from my lips I've died once but lived many times So many places I've been in one life and I'm a kaleidescopic mind.