When I am released from this bone-cage:
When neurons collapse
Organs fail
Skin, dust, dissipation of atoms of “me”.
When my ribs are no longer trapped across my chest, holding everything in
like the spines of sailing ships.
Guts spill out, liver & bile & blood
Intestines let loose my…
& if the meaning was “love”, or Love, or even love,
& if flower petals strewn & scattered & scarred with
spittle, cat fur-flecked crumbs & spite-
then symbol-strange dreams, cascade past my eyes as I sleep-
residue of thought & scarring from Love/”love”/love
& remnants & ruins of placed…