| Fell
Where what and another forested away he exhausted his arms cutting yellow flowers. She fell. A fossil in which there is no trace of breath he plucked from her. Crusted long bones of nothing buried in ice. Biblical. Dated. Time. Mathematical. Honesty chanced against hearth. Bobbing. Alone along forms of might be might have been. Versions reeled off. Distances of human bodies measured in scales of belts and globes and hands. Complex muscle Four valves Eight pints of science and fossil records Evidence of removal Broken limbed maybe Layered yes Made mountain made Delicate. Body still. Woman true. But merely a carcass now. Lying beneath snow. |