Thought

Aspiration's breath, millennial trance,

two-pointed ladder propped in a void;

busy buzzard claws, verbs on a leash,

slow blush of brain damage on a plate.

Stunned journey of dust. A holey sock.

Grind of an afternoon's axles, abandoned

juggernaut in a field; inhabited interval

with a pencil stub, curved strips of silence:

postbox for the inner ear. Tarantula's footstep,

a weight of light: inadvertent sky in the skull.

Wishbone couture: promiscuous secret,

peepshow in the street. Paraphrase of planets.

Ocean in a tablespoon. Ordinary in the ordinary:

nothing come of anything, matter unpossessed.