Splinter

unbelong,
deplorable prong in
the mechanism

recessive isolated
aggression
reduced to foreign
object
a coiled hair in
world pudding
passive passion
passed out
passed on

rubber flesh factory
God tweezer
possessive sting.
ceramic angels with needles
decay in eyeless sleep, while
trying to ignore the
splinter
embedded in their quick roots
bleeding dove shredding
small feathered gods
perched on dripping power lines
as the wooden man lights a candle
and reads with his eyes closed
in the lost dustloft