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