zaks birthday

  time eases through heartache                                       like snail slow favors

        waving the sward of wintery snow geese across edges

            turning fire                                     instant                   breaking points of sulphuric mounds

                                  within                the thought    of without       a shout remains chambered in echoes                   

                    zakary the elfling           opens his wall                  for welcome rainfalling birthdays

                   wake             with the song               they bring               as abstractions recycle the shell

      cracked old syrup               around the cup        stuck             to abrubt           rental minutes

                time                    keeps            the balance asking questions              until eventual collapse

                laps           of snack shack            midlake sounds           reminding radio heads              of gowns

              weeping with the section        of elderly depression             hunkering down for winter