its limbs they tremble eyes terrifyingly dry heart is autophagic with wild inimitable logic a wreck so attractive like remains of a chewed Roman sole its passion is deathless looks around you, relentless ... unknown speech yet worldly breathes through porous skin phonetics whispered to a flame like horrors of a secret toil a mythogrammic question that charts a semblance of lost kin eyelashes flutter like flamed fronds it contemplates the lonely that burn out ... rocking on top of a tree twigs snap under its feet a howling that can only give fright “there is no thing that contains such light!” make sure to wrap and suss it in heaps of dried cedar leaves a human turned savage to right “make sure to contain all the light!” ... what it will lose in strength it will gain in senses, love order forget how forests think suffocate dreams of sunlight its taste for pure water is telling as rain falls it’s always leaving crawling for more incisions the moon is handing out commissions