meditative shredding

1
meditative shredding, the low hum of

the machine, familiar and unfamiliar unknown

names, and drugs like mantras and sutras.



hum of the machine:

     give

          grim

               gnomon



fingers amongst the teeth

to pick them clean. still



the luxury of that imagining.





2

a sauce made from broken teeth,

the fragments clattering on the plate.

I can feel that noise at the base of my skull.





3

he recants his story.

he recounts his story.



there is the time, losing

friends like teeth: tenuously.