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…

open your mouth,
let the words fail me

open your mouth 
as it hits me… 

like some rogue wave’s
crushing collapse
over the
distance 

in apse 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’ve opened my mouth
but you’re…(words fail me)