conduit
comprehending that living is no more than conduit
a fly doesn't fly but lingers
the size of time is then similar
to the size of life
and so it lingers
and so it prays in motion
soft vomit and glucose
life in motion
living in conduits
expropriated aqueducts
and life comprehends no more than conduit
when brittle carapace brittles
and shines upon rupture
protection means little more than pacing
and narrow pipes narrate sights
expanding like plights of iron
like how beings unlike us
and like us
supplicated above and to each other
in the land of Paris and others
they have surely all been punished
they surely have had to see it coming
no one donned the armor like he did
when penetrating the gaze
of warriors inflamed
the city has been in flames
the dame has been taken elsewhere
temple dames have prayed elsewhere
poise triumphant over sheer circumstance
standstill due to sheer circumstance
and dues paid to conduit
/poems/