Knots Ruhtt

footstep moths batter incandescants
inducing numbing phobias
of their most driving desires-
brush buzzes in the nook of gum,
head detached,
a schizophrenic locust without connotations-
silent presence
in endless walls
speaks to the insects now isolated
in their darkened lamp shades
extinguished-
poised without motion within linen
sense deprived
a long wait stretching in the desert night
their bodies barred-
heat and ecstasy and then unconsciousness
a menu envisaged by lethargy
and solitude-
creeping, empty hands
search for meaning
feelers feeling, twitch-
species beside species
reap dire consequences-
the sound of strings writes itself
into skull patterns
to accompany nothingness
blurring at boundaries-
speech stretched, touched, an accordian-
faces elongate, muscles dissipate
into sharpened mucus
too large for an imagination,
creates electricity in soles-
and is gone.