killdeer;

Face full of eye contact from the bands

and their touting instruments.  Each

impact had you pulling from my fruit:

—What use! 

Twin channels to join eventually, then

part—the solid phasing of the living unit

to resort back to old playbooks. 

To collide like this is to intend to collide

violently, vehemently; and with indifference.

Please don’t leave, but definitely don’t stay.

And don’t bother with the break, at my elbow,

because this is just us occupied & distal. 

And the two black bands on these birds’

necks are like the hands held around your

throat.  While each of your members was

a little swell to the psychosis.

You were one to talk, weren’t you?