I knew at once

he had no more life.

As clean a concept

as the cut of a knife.

I'm not a bad person.

What did I do,

to start the ball,

give misfortune a cue?

If

e

stands for

everything…

We manage together

two worlds at once.

What is small

defines the large.

What is pulled

pushes the barge.

For the thoughts I bought,

that were ultimately thunk,

were really the problem.

They were the junk.

When you should’ve

and you could’ve,

but were fatally distracted.

What is left

after all are bereft?

We loose the arrow.

We let go.

We lose the arrow

so they might know.

The pattern repeats and repeats.

What is my sin?

Why must I

forever live and die

as your missing twin?

Though not a juicer,

this guy's a ‘produicer’,

a catalyst of a kind.

“There’s one! It has three prongs.”

“Nah, that’s not it. That’s the impostor.”

Exhaustion thick as concrete.

You actually begin to sleep.

But a crack forms in the wall.

It is the end of sleep.

Way back at the beginning,

remember Plan A?

You had an idea.

Put it into play.

What if we,

that is me and you

could put our feet down

and see something new?

The full poem and my Theoretically, one tree,

but reality says three.

The eldest surely will die.

For though it’s the tallest

its foliage the smallest,

all it can see is the sky.

If only this crooked stick

were a magical wand.

I could remove the thick

feeling of being beyond.

Maybe I stop here,

maybe I don’t.

Shut up and get out!

Do it now or you won’t.

There is no rhodo or azalea or laurel.

What’s the same is the claim

in the nightwing’s dark quarrel.