A shadow that aches;
tremulous against the cleansing of light.

Disembodied substance.
The cogito?
Or secrets wrapped in secrets,
the invisible reality.

Liquid tongues clash and lash;
ephemeral strings and impossible knots.

Forever flowing, forever weaving,
warp and weft the aqueous loom.

Scars and skin -
millipedes roaming baking flesh.

Inner canals -
Venetian arteries/gondola full.

Then the marrow. The MARROW.

That dripping core slipping away.

Food of decay.

Flossing detritus -
this is LIFE.

Extreme
mastication -
bowel breath
death.

Eating light and digesting darkness
the breeze whistles over fleshy bells that clang.

Windows stare into space and time; vast panes, beyond minds and placid lakes - the secret sepulchre.

Hume's bundle - laundry of the senses.

Hope unfurls –
April’s pennant *****;
rasped by the
spring lizard’s tongue.

daffodils unfurl,
green stems scaffold the essence
of spring's ambition.