Danny Gentile #41 - Anxiety (1)

Anxiety (1)

Take a tablet

to ease a thing

I cannot define

As if some dictionary

of bodily function

was letting me down

unable to locate the page

though the syllable

is thick inside

unable to cut the binding

thicker still with glue

and residue

there is no lightning

in a bottle to uncap

and so assume normality

just the thick slide

of chalk in the throat

inscribing its board

scraping the uncertainty

from a shrill call

into dulled silence

diving beneath skin

to unplumbed depths

of untapped bone

where pages are soaked

and illegibly dissolve

and the figurative

cannot be ascribed

to one particular

or any single objective