Proximity

Hid behind the face
edgewise, a true proximity,
when and where, disingenuous

To taste it all, prevail
in every way, a beginning
to be obsessed

Itching beneath a shoulder blade,
restlessness, a lack, dreaming
of inevitability, that

Short distance of intention
pronounced again and again, fixed,
this face, toes, before you

Never lost, a blind alley
detour, undeterred,
waiving all, waiving no one

Thinking touch, skin, distressed
hypotheticals, all imagined,
everything, you and yours

Chew on fact,
swallow, denuded, curled
in a ball of worry, don't

Litter, loiter, never gulp
life from a spigot, night
soaked to your skin

In cogitation, the opposite
of living, before the face
sharpens, only cuts