sped my life [1998]

sped my life
through
utterly confused
ink purple encroaches
tunnel walls engulf
distant metal needles prick
with red the blue
baby blue
in my obsidian tower
strung across from hill to hill
her hair cannot reach me here
prison, hospital,
former secondary
always concrete never
not my belonging
river of
pigeon's cries
winged I will fly
from this mountain to the next
then fall will end
and winter too.