caught snacking
on natural history
trivia
beasts in the forests
illuminated in
sudden shafts
plumes
of high altitude
protein
and mermen
murmuring
my action list
unattended
my graphs
flat
flat on my bed of thoughts
I pry
into intricacies
of my own making
repetitive melodies
hypothetical bosons
fleeting where phantasms go
go Proust young man
go void streaming
go churning
as in the dairy
the quotidian is spun
or as in the fields
no floss remains but
the integument
holds