Demi

by Joshua Otto

 

Everywhere she strolls
lifting ancient tides
 
Seemingly to wait
only to disembark beyond
the least logical terminals
 
She approximates unlikely
ends with a shelled unwillingness of
method repeated as death claims
 
To be a matter of shifting papers  
consciousness become infinitely small
 
Paralyzed by her deafening sleep
a stillness originally meant nothing
 
Before fire was
the mad text of space
 
Called her to care and be
sacred for us