Born inside the gates of a family

Hardened by a Roman machinery

Cast among the building sites

The coiling wires the shots collected

Called out in the wake of a lottery

Held inside the family gathering

Mirrored beams and dog like stretch

A wandering association

Murmurs in the dark confessional

And rides along the road ephemeral

As an animal life

Rusting in the shade of the batteries

Hanging from a rope in the gallery

Pacing down the balance beam

Of half remembered holidays

No rush of light no sign of belonging

No joy in building love in the finishing

Chasing down an anodyne

And half reflected radiance

To hide below the ancient barricade

In chambers like the rooms a swallow made

For an animal life

Charging down the maw of the ocean

I want to come close I want to come closer

I held your name inside my mouth

Through all the days out wandering

But called up from the mouth of oblivion

Cast away like dogs from the shelter

I shed the dulling armor plates

That once collected radiance

And surging at the blood's perimeter

The half remembered wild interior

Of an animal life