these superficial veins

it’s not too good
to be true,
so i lie

 taking the edge
off some rude
awakening

it’s not so much
out of touch,
but out of
interest…

you open your mouth,
but those words fail me

i open my mouth 
as it hits me… 

like some rogue wave’s
crushing collapse
over the
distant s 

inapse but gone
past parting heys
there’s nothing left 
in that (vein)/all the same

day old
taste

opened my mouth
all you hear is the sea
i opened my mouth
but you’re…(words fail me)