It was utterly terrible and claustrophobic when things became lodged in his head 

skewed or turned sidewise

captured either by fastidious fingering neurons or logjammed  tweaked by extraneous

fiber splinters gnarly bark or snagged on shattered limbs

                                                                    maybe it wasnt a hard physical manifestation

maybe it was chemical

surreptitious  a thickening clotting or oozing               malignantly syruptitious

though not truly malignant  only in the sense that his processes werent freeflowing  

harbored in brackish backwaters and washes

tepid

dammed

scarcely swelling at or drooling from the lip where its forms may have cured impatiently

imperfectly

the aggregates failing to rise

or worked

creamed  too fine and frail

it reminded him of the Everglades  its mangroves knotty roots cluttered with organic and

inorganic debris 

odd  small spinning whirlpools

then dissipating

it reminded him of the Tennessee Valley Authority  all the abandoned small towns and

hamlets rotting underwater

their stories held down

submerged 

undiscovered graves

--   Somewhars here about

their bodies and Histories unexhumed

 

                                 just because they couldnt be seen didnt mean they werent there

all this varied unrelenting aching
  

something had best give way soon before he threw himself headlong from a window

his hands stuffed into his pockets

a full pen tucked behind his ear

 

and then

leaned back

he watched a parchment of dry brown leaves cling stubbornly in a treetop

neglected now

their photosynthesis fulfilled

useless  extraneous

soon mulch

or feed for insects and grubs

                                                                                                        

or rot
 

NO  he wasnt taking kindly to the wood or calciferous stones miring his mind

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