labyrinth lit by floodlights straining the vibrations emanating from the ground crusted with glue pine sap and citric acid a flashlight in hand to shine shadows on awareness to cast the eyes shut and unflinching not a twitch of sight feeling the coarse pig hair of the walls shutting out the light with clenched lids open palms with fiberglass gashes staining a path not to follow but to inhale the pathogenic patterns ghosts showing us the way towards translucent permanence