How I Felt the First Time I Tried It
Like a clam’s tongue muscling
a speck of sand swollen
soft inside of a cheek
chasm bitten in sleep
like a skate’s blade teasing
ice the surface trembles
but stays the winter-furled
knot of a goose’s neck
loosening to thread
unstitching a socket
snapped ringing filament
bright sting of saltwater
in an eye like a nail
jutting from a floorboard
an iron incisor
savaging skin open
like a door the metal
carves a livid mouth
