“easy to find the tension in the root. / The give. The take.”

“You fooled me. Your ability to / thrive without needing…”

“I've come to learn: Packages / and bad news arrive regardless”

“Those lost lines throb electric with recognitions—”

“… the two black-spot hogs Sammy and Hammy hear their names called for the last time…”

Decomposition does not happen in isolation. You cannot decompose alone.

“All I can think is that everywhere March must be different. The fat man, bearded, in thong sandals, tells me dryer #1 is broken, holds up to me his limp sweatpants—It didn’t dry a thing, he says.”

“Recently, I’d begun to notice that my actions were only sometimes my own. Other times, they belonged to a familiar stranger whose life I’d been consigned to follow.”