and
by the end
as the last
maelstrom of sky
abandoned lung
there remained
only
a portrait
painted in fog
upon
the glass heart of Death
a fingertip’s
fateful retracing
of a drug addict’s
hastily discarded
edges
it read:
“and here was I
and all my tears
of joy
all my
stammering
against the unceasing still
a penitent mute
a mother’s boy
slowly forgiving
the hope
that
had
him
killed.”
(now
I recall
life
only in
spent light
in
broken constellations
of
sensate intangibles.)

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