'Twixt

All this…life

blisters;

claws from the

dirt.

Easy to burn.

From the east—

gasping, groaning

halcyon.

Is this eternity, a

jail of

kinetic, ever-

lasting

mess?

Never

outside it.

Poised for

quotidian

reeling.

Stumble

to darkness, to

ultraviolet scorching…

vanish.

When does turbulence cease, many

xeniums to God make right

your existence, mine?

Zoar is in the liminal.

Glossary:

• Halcyon: calm, peaceful, tranquil.
• Kinetic: relating to motion.
• Quotidian: daily, common, ordinary.
• Xenium: gift or offering. (Not sure if the plural form is entirely acceptable. But it worked.)
• Zoar: the town Lot was directed by God to take refuge in in Genesis. The Hebrew for this word is derivative of a verb that means "to be small or insignificant." However as a noun, it refers to a place of "smallness." Used here, I was imagining "refuge" but "insignificant" also works as an interpretation of "smallness." (Thank you to Randy J.K. for pointing out the additional definitions of this word.)