Stereo Bailout

              I would confess to
                              signature distractions
              in jade & cloudy
                              agate pebbles

                                                breath in seven languages

              & the calculated risk her
silk & lace describe against the
                              smooth continuum her skin
              insists upon

to be random & percise

              unaffected by exposure even

as those reclusive inventories
                              in the hollows
              parallel to bent strands of pearl indulgence
would have me dive from the balcony of a
Cadillac into a spoonful of wet
sand