"Without"
Windowless glass
an upturned mask,
an everglade fortress,
horse kiss, binned pride,
the hole we walked inside
is bleeding the blackest blue
and it's all for you, this black
daisy love, sent by doves!
a head without its body,
back-flipped spirit,
tied, baby who cried,
under every sunken hand
in the everglade fortress,
we see lies, and they feel
like knives, but what comes next,
past the ripening and the aging
in the fruitless fortress,
the “happy” everglades?