STRANDED STIRRINGS

When?  Palms.  When was?  Palms they both burn scraped against the Earth or wood no splinters what is that piece is that a piece no splinters palms they both burn scraped against the Earth or wood no splinters or something else that cannot be brought to mind or against each other maybe when was the last time swallowed dirt or something better just be dirt this fall this infection.  


When was when was the last time before this fall this infection falling infecting have some general timeline when it first started to set in the exhaustion the congestion the headache all wrapped sandwiched in a moroseness drizzled with lack of motivation.  Palms burn a little less scraped against the Earth or side of something rough when was when was the last time before this fall this infection and its spread and subsequent derailment there it comes derailing things again just before something might have come together chances were probably not favorable.  Chance gets characterized as fat sometimes maybe in terms of something corpulent behind thick walls and lots of corridors starving out what's outside and drying brooks struggling to push the dirt aside.  Swallowed something trying not to taste it trying to spit it out better just be dirt this fall this infection.  


When was when was the last time before this fall this infection falling infecting impact when the impact occurred actually followed by a cascade of other impacts when the forced swallowing if forced to swallow let it be dirt just dirt pushed aside by drying brooks.  When was when was the last time before this fall this infection this talk of drying brooks was it then when we got sticks when we got sticks to stir in the remaining puddles when we got sticks to stir in the remaining puddles and watched the disturbed mud make cloud formations.  When was that that was a we there was that girl with the greasy feet but pretty face there was a we wasn't there when was that that pretty face there was a pretty face wasn't there it had when was that when was the last time took a breath?


Breathing a weird sound coming out like that violin theme drifting up into a grey sky and narrowing its path when was that that the violin theme was heard like the narrowing sky a scene being squeezed into palms palms that still burn not as much as before when was when was that before these palms burn from scraping against the Earth or against something else cannot be brought to mind all that comes up are colors the colors of infection green sometimes yellow mostly green.  Swallowed something the impact was it forced to swallow something trying not to taste it trying to spit it out better just be dirt this fall this infection.




- Max Stoltenberg