prologue

mentally, emotionally
tumbling in covers
stuck under the blankets, the fan on
and sapped of all druthers

sickened from within
the clouds shroud without mystique
no rim-shined glow

	day one, this week

autumn and winter
diminishing, shriveling
drying out
slowly cracking but still trapped
merciless in this volatile mind

yet some comfort
dines with no respite

a repair to the senses
that muscles can't forget
the release and capture of energy
that came and corroded
so carelessly