Primary Sources

January 6, 2008

Consider the feet.

Consider where the blood pools
and the chill shock drains

when the worst is confirmed,
when you approach the fount

and realize that the worst is only worst
because it’s real

and the feet must yet move,
must lift and lead the scissoring

of legs leaden
verging on collapse.

We create our own traps.
hunter and hunted

and the primary source
is the vein in the foot

pulsing, the heart beating.

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