I hit send
and perch on pins
determined not to linger
in the knotted shoulder interval
between my accelerated pulses.
through the fissures in cyberspace
I smell the acrid plumes
- your smoke signals
fuming in fumes.
you fan them furiously
horrified that I may hear
that detector blast –
its caustic accusatory bleat.
I hit send
and tuck my limbs
careening o’er rollercoaster descent
braiding lost stanzas
of breath between
wind-torn tresses
as they lash
my puckered cheeks.
beyond the shuttered sash
of the hurricane’s eye
I glimpse the tiger claws
- unsheathed sentinels
steeling your heart.
you pounce and pad
lest I palpate the panic
as it lacerates
peels the sclera from
mis ojos llorando.
I hit send
and pluck an achromatic dirge
from the frayed threads
of our woven unravelling.
yanked through thirsty tears
in the fabric of spacetime
I echo within the repercussions
- your tortoise shelled saturninity
a caterwauling sonic boom.
you beat a phantom retreat
the envy of Custer’s cavalry
while I reel, Virginia like
across the dust marbled pages,
script unscripted.
I hit send
