Oma watching television downstairs, while blue room sheets squared back in peels, & honeysuckle's ladder up the brickwork reached like spring fingers towards my window, where in brown shadows I saw foxes steal over the crumbling drive, & clouds crashed trees atop deer eating lawn where uncle's autos coruscated in the tall wilds. In that bed I came of age with thoughts of women naked - New candles ached and led the way deeper as they dripped all across my adolescence. Years bloomed inside me, stones fell from the sky, hard as ***; fox bones slept in the wood, the televisions all sat, idols on the lace, flickering presses that touched every wall. The moon a wet thigh - something sang, & burrowed beneath the pillow.