Two fingers (index and middle) pulse in tucking ice into
this repetitive body. They: jump at the corners of these eyes, tap, scratch, spin, taste
any object, hum—gestures bigger than this naked body; bigger
than the hands that rub the heart, then clasp there, squeeze together, vary their wrists.
Fingers touch one another, feel crushed.
Freedom hides as angel (or demon or parasite) with eyes wide-open
(or subhuman dreamer) and invents a shield that disturbs emotions into pins and needles, when held up, for a long time. Two fingers sleep-scratch (pinky and ring), and resemble several snarled lines. Every itty line on anything metallic will enter this
brushed-off, un-jagged neck.
Maybe we live with a cat, now, uncovered with one small lick, who
caught the scent of some subtle stress and grows by the minute and moves
her eyes just a little, in and out, who
shakes this bed, squeezes
these fingers, slips through their cracks like cups out of cup-dispensers, and lands