intrusive thoughts i am a collage-rupture of doors. most days, my thoughts crowd & collect elbow. a wind tunnel. a tuning fork. i cut my tongue on a gust of air. he used to reach for the door knob at the back of my throat. open. out comes another thrust. a dead railroad overlooks the town. did i say "thrust"? i meant thrist. water is always rushing away from pinnacle. what does a goldfish taste like? how easy would it be to jump over cliffside. this is not my idea. a serpent openned me & whispered. trees fall over rotten amidst the forest & no one mourns them. forget about hearing. sound is a lush fallacy. maybe there are unseen funerals. a thought rides a bicycle into a brick wall. my father ties a knot around my wrist. he crushed-orange breaks nose. listen to me, nothing i tell you & everything i tell you has happened. i am a living parcing. this or that. believe your eyelashes or pluck them out. keep your porches eager or take a hammer to them. if you wait for me, i have a whole row of teeth i want to show you. light pressed to a pupil. puddle swelling with storm water. grey leaking up through floor boards. a heart breaking into hydrangea: cotton candy & blue. my last bruise was a continent & all the people tried to drown themselves in the surf of my skin. i saved them with a scoop of my hand. where are they now? carn horns in clouds. the hallway is long & endless. i want a passcode to the fracture where all these images errupt from. a safe box shutters in the basement. i have three fingers. i have six. i have a hand down my throat. i have a bedroom with one window.