1. Beginning
Early separations stung deep
but sedatives applied
in ever smaller doses
dulled the sting
and made solitude easy as sleep.
Through dishwater dilutions,
unstaged and predictable acts,
through the Cortinarius rubellus of boredom
dust-whispers from beneath the bed
and other more grievous solutions.
2. Return
Rerun electrophoretic seance
and destructive testing
of sampled serum and antiserum,
of raging anabiotic stories clung to
as if by a slowly failing science.
Learn it takes a pharmacy of you
robbed with regularity
to revive the countervailing urge,
to dive frictionless into the unmeasured
pools of darkness where we met.
for Ann
19 July 2011