≈ sensation of falling into an afternoon’s backlit cloud or a fragment of swarm

≈ that which has a soporific effect or induces trance or overwhelms & sickens with loss of boundaries; possible duration of decades

≈ a process of communion or erasure

≈ ash pile, barred owl, worn flannel, grayscale

≈ when I open my hands, a blizzard wipes the horizon clean, or when I open my hands, my grandmother’s hands stop trembling

≈ cold fog in the rushes, calcium ground to powder

≈ akin to lavender, a vein

≈ a curtain closing on Great Men—whoosh—what will they do now

≈ whitewash, fleece, pax americana

≈ dowse & drowse, punch-drunk flight, aslant & woozy through showering ice petals

≈ bits of paper, esp. diaries, letters, concert ticket stubs; paraphernalia: denoting a married woman’s property, “property apart from a dowry;” the matriarchive’s confetti form

≈ to collapse into bed, to melt & flow, to fail, to accept the changing states, to seep through the wish for armor

≈ to drift, to let go of God-chatter, pearl & clamor

≈ suggestive of a secret heart, its invisible cycles materializing

≈ the quiet, dividing, sifting into hours of night-dust, grit and pill, your tongue trying mother, trying daughter, drinking another name for river, these shifting references inside you