Bottoned to the jaw stone cold face to thaw roughed and raw under the black cloud dress shirt, loud like thunder as a I skirt the jungle that is the tangle of bangles and bands, hanging from wrists followed by hands, twisting to grab clear courage with a flourish Gulp, gulp, gulp another plunge, more lurching spiked up exterior like a sea urchin lurking in the deep, dark ocean Slowly getting dull I'm emptier the more I am full fire slowly flitting out, I'm a dying coal a half burned ember put out by the snow of December just pretending to be fire I'm happy (I'm a liar) but I never tire of drowning lurching, lurching prickly again, I'm a sea urchin