Avengers

it's not that

we want to

even out

the loss

or settle

something

between us

...I'm dying

a slow and

anxious

morning,

rain and

tangerine

in colour...

left my

signature

and warning

scampering

back to

the hide,

inside the

skin of night

where not even

you as hero

can count

my wrong

doings,

nor pen

what can

never be

righted...

I have my

own bars,

and I'm singing

all off key and

cuff so that

you'll know

it's me jangling

with that

stainless

cleaver,

coming at

you from some

unexpected

direction...

and in the

meantime

slicin' in,

Anticipation.

07.22.2023

Villan Ark challenge @Meadow