under icy shade
(ceiling forest,
day fragments melt
)
columns of bark
holding
up walls
from crumbling
[termitic fodder:
eating antsy
]
juniper sap
I coalesce
berryessence
suspension
II.
No one's request
I honor calmly
With a narrative
Of crawling
fragments.
They want a love story,
Refusing love's glorious arc
To bask in warvision,
Unable to perceive.
Since the world
revels in shallow darkness
I give them flaws so cravèd.
@d-pend