Martin Willitts Jr.
the body remembers what the mind forgets
withdraws from the world by inches
escalating exponentially
wingspans of rainfall
the body recalls weeping
the urgent calls for more
blackouts more violet
body momentarily vanishing
someone inside
a mouth is dangerous
hands more so
as they fling abandonment
the mind subtracts stones
water
isolation
mind and body pass through elements
separate
still attached
uncoupling
coupling
indecisive which is best
Martin Willitts Jr. has over 20 chapbooks including the winner of the Turtle Island Quarterly Editor’s Choice Award, The Wire Fence Holding Back the World (Flowstone Press), plus 11 full-length collections including How to Be Silent (FutureCycle Press, 2016) and Dylan Thomas and the Writing Shed (FutureCycle Press, 2017).
