Here & Now

pushed to the ground

by friction grinding

pushing through

the ground of essence

weighted fiction

whispering critically

with coarse diction

not you

but a nervous itch

wrenching and grappling

could, should, and would

fencing off

what is real and vital

until suffocation strangulates

mechanically concretizing

the flow of motion

cascading into this moment

ripe with what could be