poetry. folded into my back pocket marooned pages are left frayed and friable like leaves on the bottom of a teacup
poetry. stancion of formed glass emptied of its torch by breakage each shard a grain of obsidian sand
poetry. lamp of a great beast structure struggling to find its way through the labyrinth Minotaur myths blackness camera obscura to a feast of souls who's meat is dusty tomes skeletons in tombs choking on their crusts of parchment owls
i am poetry. all of these am i. a paper soul clipped from an origami bird's wing frayed like a homemade leaf but never