after Reginald Shepherd
someone fell
fled stumbled here
detoured her
means: she can’t see around corners
beyond her
reach, unseen from any side
under
represented gap
between, and
flowing. if we listen we might witness
a
suffocating passage of air, through lungs like water
her language
settling like snow
flakes
against the palm of my hand, survive
across
geologic layers, indiscriminate molecules
