"When I breathe, I feel the continents perched upon my crest shifting and crumbling."
whence

these eyes are opening dreams.I saw with one eye what I did not with the other.
(I wish I was blind)

When I sleep, it is day: You waking
it is impossible that we may be both in my head; for you are surely out of it;
walking, brushing the air with eyelashes.

    III
Where do you hide?

but that was a dream
and i am still, sleeping, waiting for it to end

skip rope. snip smoke. rip hope.

*where words are only metaphors, where metaphors alone are pure