today's brittle edges
flake away follow

ticks through
moments

moments through
hours & i shuffle

ginger through
onionskin pages

of purplebled
typewriter ink
trailing bygone

names through
bygone legalese
leases & sales

& their deals
& their bodies
bygone

but the land
remains

awoke to my
skull in vicegrip

morning's jaw
clenched tight

every minute
another tooth

& sunlight its
fetid breath

i summit
page piques
of curiosity

improv iotas

observe
each rivulet
ramble each
eluvial epithet

what words
will withstand
wind & a wash

accumulations
of weather
plus gravity

unsui
in situ

o how each
dry driftwood bone
in my limbs

at summer's onset

flares lavender with
a saltburn longing
for lost seas