[[[A project I intend to finish in 2026]]]

Quiet. Be
, ever so,
quiet.
Life pulses. Life preludes. Life surges and ends.
It begins, tearing cervix,
bending belly,
with in.
Fluid, blood, and bulbous faces:
amniotic orphic fission of:
new life, old
new heart begins as
cataclysm, pre-barnacled by kin.
In her, of them.

Begin again a search
for skin beyond yours
for skin within uncharted wills
tidal locked by
flesh, unspoken commitment.

If you must open,
lay sideways, like oyster or palm:
trust spine and sinew;
trust bone. If

you must let a tender souls seep, stall,
slither and rush.
Into this world,
screaming.

As cups entwine form

history.

as cups entwine form

fossils

tendrils

moan

aging, they will stretch.
Tired, they will stretch
arms of oak, leaning left
spreading ribs, fingerlike,
right. Cages sloughing forgetfulness
from selves calcified.

Pulmonary encrustatians of muscle
that beats
muscle that collapses underweight

wait
wait

there where there is
less air pressing down.
Behind the dark side of
remembering deeper. Deeper

dimembering to a rhythm of void.