on all fours,

i. // ii.

(perched there
in the dirt,
i found a curving
dark umbilicus)

i put a finger
in its quiet noon
and waited:

ever-moving, ill-
contained secrets

lacking boundaries,
or semblance to

foresight always
becoming else

ruin in the black
winter morning

iii. / iv.

(i felt it there pimpling,)

a howl running:

creek to mouth
creak to sound

a molotov cocktail:

swallowed whole
i for you