Jim Matzorkis

lounge

just before work,

as soon as

home,

      pleasure turns

      medication,

filter - teargas - stoplight - mirror

      every\thing sounds off

      ;

      hung at the gateway to the mothers

                  .  open arms dream tourniquets and

transubstantiation:

-Whesikahni?

-nihwohl.

                  (light jailed in the belly of a cistern)