Søren

For an eye-blink lasting 1 minute past

for ever I disputed

her lips with Søren Kierkegaard

when it was either light or dark, mouth to a stranger[’s] mouth

lit by a photonegative sky

so together with Søren

we pirouetted through jewellers’

smashing display cases

grabbing luxury items & making a leap for

it. Meanwhile in a village

hidden from the unblinking eyes

of gods, snow & fog

freezing / the eerie presence

of an inland sea.

[

]. We have a[n] [un]certain

understanding of the difference between

hallucination & waiting at a bus stop

the weather softening

a sort of silvery sun-haze mouthing unwritten clouds,

wind dying down to a system

of caress. Homicides are on the rise in Milwaukee