The wheel of probable harm
falls forward over the inaction
of a state, over the houses
as fangs along a cancerous jaw.
The rate of loss is not hesitant,
finger-tapping uncertainty
finalizing the weight of itself
in a legislative session.
The meaning of heavy metals
diffused into water affixes to
a father’s fading eye, the pull
of a tumor on the optic nerve.
When you are dealing with
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
there is no security. There is no
contact negotiation delay of metastasis.
A lung is water, is the immediacy
of intake, ingest, infiltrate.
From under the cover of process
what venom stretches itself
through a body. What is
shouldered anonymous in the
authoritative solitude of night
but this injured vessel.