there’s an ache
where my
spine hits my skull
but just to
the left
a throbbing up a tenseness down
into my
shoulder my arm
along my
torso it falls flitters
loose loosely
away and back again
grasping thrashing
reattaching it
coils
around my
belly my chi
it’s the
years months days hours
the milliseconds
accumulated
piling
pushing forward and through
always
forward
always
through
exhaustion
where whence
how
why
does the
soul manifest in the flesh
