jama.
light flares
slipping away at its rim
in constellation
shrapneled foliage
the dwelt compression
of a town unhinged
and lucid above its
marginal raft
signalling
countenances of the unsane
groined in the tarn's cranial
and silvered excrescences
this daguerreotype life,
oily grisaille
impacting folds
beneath a mapless body swamp