"Ever

Where, swift and wool in going?
Fell always wishing like this.

Tomorrow, want less and hunger bigger.
Fewer terror but stronger, staggered.

Taken heart outside to dry.
Rain surprise and ruined.

Silver cold and stops the swelling.
Why hurts from other body?

Why photo soothes with flat?
Salt soaks blood tender.

Brihten flesh in slap.
With word, not blood silent.

Not leave and take me
nowhere, swift and wool in going."

--Brenda Shaughnessy, Interior with Sudden Joy (1999)
[This took the roof of my head off...]