invasive/evasive



guess a three card monte

must I be in
one of those predetermined
positions?

I am in the grains
of the table upon which
you play.


you rale me with your

metaphoric paradigms
drill sergeant tactics


am I locatable on

your map?

be still –
you are alive in daydreams
in trances
in stirs and foreign dialects

neither of which has left a living trace.

be still-
you are my suicide
my unrestrained
pestilence.

you blew
the love right out of me.