VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL
warm water, the black invisible
below,
sucks in a breath’s question,
death hug of the
too loving
goddess.
labored flight of a
black and yellow
bumblebee
above him.
heard.
drunken whirlybird
bumping blind surfaces
seeming also blind
matte black head,
no eyes,
in waking darkness
double dead
olfactory intuition
in rudderless flight,
dominance
constructed from impossibles
he slept on a firm
forgiven earth
and dreamt this.