Reduction

Public Domain

See them on screen, reduced

in senses, conjoined

grazing in grade

throughout all dreams

in frayed concentration

 

slivers of sound

spliced in at night

roses and garnet

piercing the edges

puncturing barriers

 

edging toward silence

speaking in hollow form

sleeping envisioned

in communique

 

They came with me, aligned

with scars in the sky

peddling the trope

remembrance in fragments

scattering the loss

 

seedlings rot down

implant decay

sewn into rations

inverted in frame

brandishing iron

 

in razed forgiveness

the stir of forgotten

scarring in morning

first waking light

 

MM 8.2020