sinuous, serpentine, spongy,
soggy, drowning under water,
not serendipitous,
not a sinecure with a quick fix,
not erect at my unstrung cello,
not perpendicular at the untuned piano’s yellowing keys
the cat walks across at night
emboldened with the power of creating noise, not melody.
through the neck, the incision to scour decay’s long-fingered clutch.
cadaver bone from a bank somewhere and its own bone shards
beseeched to regrow,
re-bequeath composure
when the second foot lands on the stained carpet
from the dreamworld.
in time for the masquerade, only half tragedy.
look at me, I’m not dropping the martinis
I’ll pretend to like.
decompressed, letting its recalcitrant grasp of nerves go.
now I’m outside the body,
hovering above myself in the sky’s bold cloud-whispering.
the planes fly right through me.
the Arctic winds don’t cause any shivering.