stories numb the injury
felt less but leaking
open, there is nowhere
we are going though
the composition changes
fragile alarm systems
some minor mechanical
damage can fright
the whole school
minnows in the pond
flee and flee
there is no place immune
though we try to see
the black bull
grazing at dawn
patterns reassert
themselves without
such observable signals
as a shadow on a hill
how long was this pheromone
in the secretion with never
a word or affection withdrawn
just this yellow gland
unobliterated by sunlight
and the gene for detection
long suppressed
the felt sense turned
inward towards some
nascent never formed
beginning
