Beyond the Shadow’s Ink marigolds for the edge where he leapt the well holding water like the mind holds worry each a knot in a threadless net until it wore the hush i saw the followed path the hole the grave listening drove me closer became the city i fled to i rang wild sometimes the blow is the snap itself algebraic flight of swallows Beyond the Shadow’s Ink I held my mothers sleeve like string to a light bulb go with god but bring bus fare make yourself a monster through the urge to turn back hands worm wire to form the animal’s skeleton flight mirrored as fall the lunatic lung to his wingspan a believer is the most dangerous thing to be Beyond the Shadow’s Ink
