All the living With dead hands I climb Deeper Deeper Deeper into every grave That lies on the edge of moments They dance in the middle I hang on the side-- lines tied arranged around my neck Pearls once seized In bubbles that once bleed Every inhale sinking Deeper Deeper Deeper until it strikes the oceans floor A ripple A wave A shakedown Every last coin rippled from the tree Scattered Littered A Frenzy of what might have been Sunk treasure Sinking Synching With ocean eyes A hydrothermal vent Sprouts with wisdoms flight In whirlpool bouts Sends me sending Sends me out-- sending Strata of enzyme Stripping of strapless time Unhinged Unholy Soundly Unsound with every bound A filter A funnel A reverberating tunnel A shifting a snake A clearing of every take In colouring seals with every layer I unpeel That which was added Sanctimoniously padded This walls of madhouse My house My home Lost . . . An incorporeal snare Words that once found form swarm bare as they once were, it's bearing new, unbearing unbearable. I clamor for those pearls with memories of clams galore I yearn for the lore which was my everyday bore that called me forth and turned reality... That dream in a set of dreams The idle snore No more Please I beg Send me that/back...