noun. 

hot-rod red, boiling—veins snake, denim—skin throbs. 

my eyelids are pounding. 

dozens of sparrows, pushing at pale canvas. 

thunder gasps at the 
caverns
of my lungs. 

lightning
at the fuse. 

noun. 

an Edgar warning;
thumping at wooden chest,
racing.  

it just echos. 

i am not your dictionary. 

i am not your dictionary. 

reverberate. 
reverberate. 
reverberate. 

hollowly, it
hymns. 

muffled by fire-truck cloth
and sun-starved cotton. 

noun. 

blue trees dance to the 
rhythm,
singing up at skylight eyes. 

reverberate. 

breathe. 

reverberate. 

repeat. 

noun.