PARIMUTUEL BONES

this page empty as your absence

needs filling

words circle

feeling slowed to response

shaken and thrown like bones

for a duplicate number

I show up blank and impregnable

to catch me unaware

stasis nightwalks

mirrored in your stare

now that your stare my mirror

has wrinkled and cracked to eyes

my hand wakens to you

and you to my hand

folded open now

is the time to scribble

quick notes of underlying love

and slam you shut

for I am resistless

rolling to another face