flounders.

by Atti?


this keliedascope is the closest ive come to seeing
the need to go-
before you fractured the maniscus
i saw a means for hope.

i looked down that barrel for hours
like i never before learned to sea
-where you shoot fish
with ease
i eat bullets while they learn to breathe
under water as their jackets shed
at my feet.

before you shot the fish
that swum around behind my eyelids,

i saw a reason

-now i see a million each too small to motivate
and collectively far too shattered
to build the latter of emotions
that it would take to get me to build
you the bridge across this ocean;

have a nice swim.