a million, million actions
sit inside me like so much
p o t e n t i a l e n e r g y
a word, a move, a tangent
to run along from
this fixed point
but armor works both ways
in stopping the slings and arrows
from leaving as well as entering
to exist…
irreducible,
(n)ever expanding,
a vibrating string of contradiction
frozen into this life’s pond
makes the heart beat fast
while cloaked in flesh and bone
as if it never existed at all