Evacuate the outline! How
swell ranks so limited,
who once filled the glass in their
sensual crush
search the unresponsive
stretched skin, and rattle
stands of bamboo. Where was I?
Bent into a skeleton
or flourishing a marker, or if air
between, its thin plate
shielded inner workings,
forfeited to glass
muted but still populous,
one silhouette cupped
her hand as though to scoop
tabled rain, reaction
quick and nervous, flank pang
clock-set so to
prance, prance, a shadow-
length awaiting scratch
hieing from blue distance, skims
the lamped shore,
salience is mine, in outline,
poised to cut its divot.