hallucinated ambush

stuck in zero limits fish-eyed

asps curled in bracken shade

.

Shut up! I want to sleep – why do you talk?

reading up on antidotes

trust me, squirming, there is no better poison

.

thoughts fragment half-cut jewels

swirl creamily through furry layers and dark paillettes

dust binds dubious truthes

.

I think I want to get hitched

latent whims break loosed chains

in the shadows numbed and painless

.

trapezed on threads hung dumb on fern whorls

.

another ache a splinter borrowed

aspen afire in a rearview mirror

another sharpened point pulls awake

~

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n.b. NaPoWriMo Day 5 prompt: take a poem and use the first letter of each line and the simple shape of the poem, including line breaks to write a new poem. Woody & Johnny took Race by Vasko Popa, translated by Charles Simic, published NYRB, (New York, 2019).

W&J    05/04/2021