To not be taken to by JKD

After “A fragment (not yet perhaps to satisfaction)” by Nicholas Manning, posted Feb 9th, & “Dust from the Mirror” by Sean S, posted Feb 24th

*
an arena shared by
this possible
this

sky clattering
labyrinth of dropped
mails,

..................a voice
has potential
only an arm’s length, a cleared
throat rice paper distance

red tattoos under blacklight
knuckles
perfume
like coins in a box

dropped cause
you said, like
this

walls of mirror
invisible doors in
a fluttering

acknowledgement
in media res
of this, possible
only refusal cracked

guttering
pale as a slipped
skeleton

glass
in a jar of light
this wick,
this

you, trapped
coven
to go back. go.

or share out
shell round
pieces of
bereavement

sticks
like moss
to your maroon
dress, in short
say
history

or a plane, this
surface
diameters between
in no way

a direction to
shadowplay,
screen this palpable
wrist, this signpost
out