A Nautical Study of Possession

  Cass Lintz  

Air changes in molecular structure
in speech, and tears.
It is well known that
the invention of the ship
came with the invention of shipwreck.
You were a storm.
Fear of obscurity,
locked landlessly, without rescue or compass, no flair.
Hope remains buoyant even in darkness;
As hunger starves in circles, trick.
Words as articulation
of borders, of lack
thereof
the musculature of
your noun, pressed
possessively, into mine.
Transubstantiation with a twist.
Wreck.