billions

wet round exhausted –
raging lined by
bright hair – half decomposed
love drawn down – rendered
powerless occasionally

empty tucked under
thin cities must recede
to an exact spot – a way
with your ego immune
unconscious & shaded –
enforced, pressed up against
unstable breezes

the line – a project
or projection –
large reaches –
reaching through these
sweaty pursuits
sweaty oblivions

reaching to shape
singular – spun together
made replaced by an equation
these longings for a mystical
diversion become a
recognized present –

a location of culture
charted – counted – cannot
dragged to death, uncaring
a voice of flooding talk
unknown care – all things
impassioned, bloody forgotten
made optimism of
recognition in matter
a living alongside