themselves to help them
avoid their new cellblock—

better to leave hysterical
smoke behind
like worthless bitching

The evening star.

as a way to experience
the destruction

of your body
a fissure inside

of what meaning
is to you

and what it is to me.

Sew it back into place.

The efficacy of this practice was
in the making of frightening noises,
porpoises appearing in their fortress
trees, a rope ladder going up