the coffee pot chimes like hail. 
thunk, knees on foam
I think, sometimes, about synonyms for
leave:
- arrive
- send a letter
- cry on shag carpet
- flee

paddle, shift weight

Horizon line of tattered thread
arrives
to find fistfuls of ash

Tendrils rise from earth
flowers of brass singing
Send a letter

drift, rise

I mother consequence,
which has never had a mother
It could only remember
crying on shag carpet

shake, shift weight

Organs glimmer,
splayed to ring-year,
flee
written in blood

sink, hold breath

I think, sometimes, about synonyms for
leave:

- I had not known before what it was to see a person broken.
- I thought I did, but I did not. I did not understand what it looked like.
- I sat on your floor and I watched while everything was ripped from you.
- I wished it were me.

surface, breathe

Horizon
arrives
to find

flowers
Send a

mother

crying

to

flee