To every squirrel who has ever been hit by a car I’m sorry and I love you.

Radiating sparkles Resting, maybe sleeping Matter alive in a manner Light's made of you I could read all of you Through the oily layers of the eye Lightning up the optic nerve Animated We look onto the far side of the aperture Slip into a windsweep Rays of my palms pointing fingers at your final location Dear sweet backlit nerve endings I have sent you my protection in the form of God In the form of sleep and flying and some version of time Rest in peace, you aching shelter You may now devour thе planet Your first breath, free of compounds and grief Windswеpt and twitching and drinking from my birdbath I hope this bug is a bunny is a bear radiating sparkles everywhere A potential to have accelerated The road to Heaven is paved in none other than asphalt I'd have held you in travel if I had known you before I'm healing you from here Not shaking Not running, screaming A retroactive process and a pre-birth perceiving Getting sorted out and stronger and learning to see One candle per body Many of you get multiple candles May as well light some for the rocks I know you're hopping around Micro-forests of corpses and divinity I hope you're hopping around, my lovelies I can't wait to hop around with you one day when this is over I hope you're hopping around, my lovelies I can't wait to hop around with you one day when this is over "X-ray of the spine" "Imaging the teeth" "Imaging the skeleton" "Phalanges" "Inside the gall bladder" "Interstellar mucus-producing cells" "Humanity is now faced with a stark choice Evolve, or die"