– Slick –

Slick
grasping.
With fingers
made of again.

Searching.
Clinging.
For healing.
From elsewhere.

Slips through.
Shrouded.
Without an object
to hold to.

Belief.
Trust.
Mine.
And returned?

Talk.
Mist on veils.
No hooks.
Alone.

On its own.
Burning,
in the reaching—
cold flames.

Flickering.
Encircling.
A doubled grasp.
Half-seen.

Half blind,
half dead—
still watching.
Slick.

Again.
Otherwise.
Here.