Everywhere. All at once.

Everywhere. All at once

My hands stretch before me

Fingers Lagging, drawing light

Watching me

curiously watching them,

with their ten knowing eyes.

A thousand snakes

with oil-slick skin

Writhe peaceably together

in omnipotent melody

They do not worry,

about their radiator,

Or taxes, or time.

Passers-by:

Their voices float to me

through layers of sticky amber

Warming their tones

to a psychedelic dance.

The leaves whisper as I breathe,

A symbiotic flamenco

My mother has done well,

I'm told

My son is kind.

My daughter is afraid,

But brave.