the ALLURE

of second skins

ways out not considered because they were improbable

an improbable held fixed  as impossible

IMPOSSIBLE

                                   miserably impossible

but when he looked up at the word

he saw it read  Im Possible

an if he wasgoddammit

then anyone was

the ancient woods where the black lake napped was sure

its bareboned trees were limned grey blue rouge an silver

liverskinned slivers  lizardskinned  cleaving its looserot mossed an ferned floors

standing where boiled rock hardened an split

hiding warrens an dens snakes an beasts

it asked him  ARE YOU THE ONE

asked ARE YOU THE ONE

demandedARE YOU THE ONE 

                                                  

but he slipped
into his other skin
an slipped out of the forest before it knew he was gone
never to answer its question

 

alluring

               he was

hed done twentysix years of solitary confinement for not killing anyone

twentysix years

                                                                                                                                                            alone

it does something

to a mans mind

0035,  Monday Pearl Harbor,  7  12. 15