fresh cut
smell

on slipping
day,

holding
on..

only to watch
it fade,

deep gut
swell,

the night grows
bare

little left to do
but stare.

carried on a
breeze’s
trace-

is hollow ache i can’t
quite place,

though known well
by its acrid
taste

i breathe it into
cracks on
face.

the tone is
dour,

a taste grown
sour

on tongue of
beast

in need of
shower,

curtains drawn-

grim features
sketched

on wall to
see..

what’s better
left,

from tower, man
emerges

clean and fresh,
with gentler
urges.

stone by stone,
shoved up
a hill..

to roll back
down,

was built
alone–

this crumbling
home..

on fringes of now
thriving
town-

were bricks
set up..

to fall back
down.