Home still exists.
Where is homeland?
Look how wonderful your fear is, they goad.
Now step over the edge.
The snake was never an intruder in paradise
but a permanent resident.
Dinner was served already a memory:
Warm, heavy, familiar, bearable.
I see now that big brother fear//had the strength and muscle to pull out the atrophied qualities in adult life.
Read MoreMy father, gravity, heard the rumor of my death,
Went into his room intending to hide
Pretending the shape of inception.
I am a traveler on the journey between lives. Please
hold my hand. I’m scared. Please carry me.
The last time I did, my reflection twitched, glitched, distorted.
A bug? A body? A burden?