11 January 2025
19 January 2025

terminus

merest getting there
tight as oboes all the way
then in the scratching thicket
swallow hard

pursuers are here already
have always been
their fingers grasp my face
twist limbs

concentrating rainbows will not help
purest colours like purest sounds
emit emit
more colour is the trick

but this game is on my own ground
my tenuous lifelong thready sound
of robot lives unthinking animus
it comes to this

get your hands off me
I’m all I have