Selfed - & - Sufficient
Say you shove socks
in your windows to subdue winds
safe cracked yolk egg shaped dreams
tie a branch back from scraping
(like ca-cawing birds) at your pane
rain funnels and gas leaks, stench set
and conspiring strangles,
raw throat eyes and glasses
Yet breath escapes, slips through the inch
of crack below door
asphyxia gurgles like a furnace
gas in line
lean/leak
I heard of that boy who hanged himself
from his closet door while pleasuring there
didn’t mean to slip so
They smelled him too late, swelled, swallowed tight
hobbledehoy
cocoon-like and weight-hanging,
lepidopterous plight
