dripping acid across sutured wounds

losing touch is molten candle wax : the sort of metacarpal pain that diffuses into elbows leeching spinal fluid & eyelashes dissolving into cicada wings dripping down cheeks like an afterthought : tenuous are the breaths exhaled without cause.

—& who proclaims us stillborn before we resign to becoming so—

i am percolating saltwater spat from the mouth of a hyena : twined secrets & psalms into marshy delta reeds : asked the coriolis effect how to breathe once more once more : with an onslaught of hurricane, i’d best wash away.