words

it’s hard to keep these words working without somehow
going wrong
they contain something beneath understanding

in its way it’s as dangerous as strapping bombs
to bodies
i mean they are those bombs and that’s what straps

them fast to each shaking breast. it’s one thing
to keep
track of them like this, another to keep entirely free

of blame. so once enough of these words are strapped
the pulse
of pressure trapped within this hot mass will finally

escape


it’s movements like these that don’t
surface til they reach a point of freedom