Lighter flick

Leaning my paper horn into wheel-roused light

Night-dispelling Djeep lighter

Like a rhino moth self-immolating, singeing sins I creep higher

How many recessions I sessioned through

Sticking skins throughout the pandemic, trying to give lungs helmet

The words surprise my vision but a fissure betwixt, thick vincula

My pungent stick like Stephen’s Mullingar ashplant ferries me quick

To the moving quill, fidgeting like deficient attention at my desk

Waiting for my muse to enter.

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