TUMOUR

Little tumour, you’re a blip

on the radar, corner of the body


dust is swept in. If a mirror

took negatives, archived them


in a blender and let it dry – that would be you.

Indifferent continent where metaphors go:


zebra mussel, surgeon’s golf ball,

a connect-the-dots dot.


Death on a rusty tricycle.

Claustrophobe, you ask for a little light –


lungs open like a pair of hands attached to a kid

at the beach, open-palmed, saying, Look what I found.