Body of Render

the history inside you, coded & writhing out of dormant only a deep burrow of, say self- preservation distresses;

how we define singular by relation to plural

think walls, think what walls keep, what walls inhibit

what winds your heart in twilight, brings limbs to rise & organs tick

& in burn you also

sun, gorgeous sore, tests the pupil in constrict, lips in part more more; say alive & feel it

dusk always resides in chest, in fissures between lobes where all of us lie temporal & disoriented

we sift memory in gather, in gentle care, to mind the incessant pull back to elements, back to quiet.