sublimation

I.

asleep and alone,

the quandary between

both snow and ice

as solids is resolved

by a mutual eagerness

to fill lungs as water.

II.

schematic alterations

become coastline interjections

as the silhouette smell

of pennies clenched

in pocket fistfuls

attest that this

house could use

some utensils.

III.

underwater blind spots are

pinky toe pinching sneakers,

dental floss suicide,

side-hand smudges

transferred onto

more personal business.

IV.

I never dreamed,

and instead laid

unconscious in bed -

should versus could versus want:

could becomes want,

but want is seldom should,

and could and should

rarely align

V.

do-it-for-yourself and

sever the corpus collosum

with pruning shears you

find in the garage, but

wd-40 the blades first so

it is a single snip, not

a series of teething perforations –

it is impossible to nest

when everything

is so shiny.