crossing

beady disacknowledgment of the eyes

stretching your legs like blackjacks
the unhinging approach
as your heels leave
parched space to lower once again
on the (by now) steel-wired
ribcage housing
my heart turning like a patched ravens’ eye
glistening getting wider
as my chest heaves

"you are no threat"
at least this what i want to say
as i forget everything i
know about you
skin, eyes, the uneven form
we all have and refuse to see
halfway past my liberation is complete
more indistinct
miles

you could be anything by now
a green dog hidden in the marshes
scurrying home
as the lights dim
or debris fallen from the
streetlight above
an angel with tin wings