the last few signals before function admits its familiar choking passages
and with sudden emphasis

therefore, a more sophisticated communion is
possible with a pair of probe scissors
vanishing within its own —
still and linger, hollowed out

does face dictate traits of the persona
or the latter the idiosyncrasies of the countenance?

memory wrench
drawl symptoms
pass in ebb
the foregut
full of not
then worsening speech arrives
within its familiar opaque:
you remember

the etymology of our
word dwell is to lead astray.
blue smokescreenings —
informing against the illegal exportation
cannot be substantiated
better still, we remaindered under the canopy
always returning to the same scarce points,
a poverty of reflex.

ions drifting beneath liquid.
he heard a choir of children hymn in the next
come apart
together
trill, spin, drift
phony rush of backstairwaters
a rosy fingered lawn — no trace
the outskirt that never ends
save the fading interjections of visual fallacy:
a rather twisted regal blue
radiating from the depressions buried
within a 'scape of not-so-good hope.