Tabula Fractus

Tabula Fractus

         come with me to this moment
         where remembering begins
         the bubbles in my head pop
         and there we are
         hammering truth to fiction
         future to past
         words are the floor we're stepping over

         years later  past the wire fences
         rain like medicine drops
         across the narrow plane
         days grow up here
         flowery months of yellow red
         absorb the rumored poison
         I thought I had it
         figured out

         night looks back in anger
         eating up the air
         I have to find a place
         snap the light switch on
         bolt the darkness out
         all this just to breathe
         a little
         finished with the first part
         too feeble for the last

         it melts
         turns to vapor
         finely pulsed through woven flesh
         I've dropped my last decision
         fire for the nothing there
         that slips around me
         convex layers
         spirit wings appear above me
         this time we won't remember
         the crawling ashes singing
         autumn burns within me
         the guardrail grammar crashes hard
         against this sharp abatis
         I am not what I think
         nor from thinking thus descended

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