( ) in clothes, in drapes, in sheets
Turns
and is at odds with itself
A figure fallen
faces down
into the judder
A death / performed
Releasing and with crumpled ease
Does not suppress
But huh, huh, huh, huh,
Huh,
hu
chest beats the floor
chest
that willingly opens
the body
to have it expelled
Thrown from the throat and pulled
from ()
behind the ribs
To get it out is - in
- out
- in - out -
compartments inflating
rhythm with the em-p-ty-ing
dual
a dynamo
is
stuck.
A veil hangs dryly over the tongue
Messenger signals
and an invader evading
A towel is wrung to rid of the moisture*
Hand
washed
clothes wrung out to
remove
Bodies (w)rung to let the ( ) out
as ( )
Bell
rung on
a cir-cle
The pendulum swung
rapid drop that lagging follows
Time departs from its thing
From metal from material
A bell rung under water
slower cir
c
le
pulls
through
suffocating
Upwards
to,
for,
to___ breath(e)
….
Writhing, it beats on a surface
To catch air in__to__
in distress
beats strongly
Beats against the time
Against
it struggles against it.
Forming words
Let them form on the tongue like paper
Every time te_ wuh_ iie_ sss_twiissss_ting
Constrict
/phuhh
Constricted
/phuhhh
for air and
-space-
What it takes with it
Finds a way out but
Towards
as a stranger
Wrapped
in
Enclosing arms or drapes
Twisted gown and
arms folded under so the
-discomfort-
Fabric pulls that restricts the limb
and pulls tighter
Collar stretched
into my Neck
Voice
Bones
Breath
How do I speak to you
See you apart
( ) is speaking
As in jest but is all things
Days till the
Numbers sound far off unlikely
unconnected to what we are in
( ) moans and rolls
And frightens of boredom
Or blankness
Fierce hold
that in play loosens
and constricts,
consuming
out of ( )
reunifying
Bones formed of my own
tap my face
Weight of a slighter hand
Settles
my
cranium as a cascade
Ribs
arms
hips
hold my big body
Head heavy like a ball
Sheets and drapes and
(__)
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*in zero gravity, water will
not release from this cloth but
rounded
and in agile fulness
wanders the length of its torsioned zone
exploring and
persistent.