RECENT THEN

If the setting
the subslurping
the barter bang burrow
the bitterly begotten
the spawning
to the gills
if the herniated egohollow
the co-gutspilling to zero
the catalogues of disgust
the abeliefs
the finite family were less able
if they were exincapable barely of the vital scrapings
the bellyful in chains
the pallid postmasticated
if the final sinister swallow of light, fog of affliction weren’t so forecapable
ah
the greenseeing
the seeing everything perhaps in free flutter the being
the pure being without leaves already without either coasts or wild waves or against
only its sphere only
                                    recent
                                                perhaps
                                                                                recent then