walking with mirrors
you've been carried peculiar
as if only surface movement
t'was all i understood.
effortless stems- each tether
begins to wilt

vultures suckle at your security.

but let's remember-
i've been used to knives
quite like stars collecting distance
but you refuse the car
and i am to declare king.

my companions are great morals
in a cult of social greyness
all baggage gets left behind.

and you've been losing velvetine.
accusing doves of adultery's
the same as plucking them dry.

but let's remember-
i've been used to knives
quite like stars collecting distance
but you refuse the car
and i am to declare king.

these vespas carry serf
each wave down me farther
and each stroke for breath
only causes larger waves
to lain me proper:

you salt more wounds
than you know.

but let's remember-
i've been used to knives
quite like stars collecting distance
but you refuse the car
and i am to declare king.

forever terrified
that if hands conjoin;
i'll be fated to swim
abreast shattered glass.