Blood for money

i push my fingernail against
a broken tooth

but the nail bends

maybe i am left behind

a body of broken star systems

defunct
starved of calcified bones

ground against the
wiper blades of time

i remember when the insides
did not mold and degrade

when i could see within them
the tenuous blue sky

the limitless progress of age

2014 (2013- )

All years are uncompromising
they turn imperceptibly
          imperceptibly faster
          advancement of
temporal time
to the chaos bridge
          rainbow oblivion
          arching soon
          white flowers
          crying mothers
          systems down
years shrink immeasurably
          unnoticed
          in the cramped dark
          wailing forge
          river widens
we are a breached galaxy
a martyred existence
          death
          somehow
at the end
and mine
a famous tree
          shedding leaves.