beyond the bed
a lilt of voices live
my former life
gathering dark
telling the children
I can’t
clinic exam
the one-fits-all
of paper pants
blood letting each use and disclosure
torn vein
I make a Pollock
of the sheets
pulse oximeter
the data but also
the hypothesis
blue
butterfly
needle
tip
of
the
scar
on
this
rem
ain
ing
ve
in
.
river cloud
the X of this body
unsolvable
left less than a cloudless sulfur adrift in an illness