an other flees full stop tidal tugs tyres full stop arm a meant for holding torn full stop tired full stop another slips sleeping awake waters sinking full stop mourning tears are salt in which we swim full stop home in the stars in the pull shoreward miles pebbled our feet swollen with brine full stop this house of our parents dust full stop memory no pleasure full stop wind is up bearing dust tracks pollen cordite full stop tattered being full stop living in small gaps of hope full stop moon shimmers small of ear silver full stop breath dream slow chuckling seaspray coastal full stop our prayers paddle full stop the sentence muttered is without the verb love full stop the phrase of humans all humans these blood beating muscle straining fractured full stop all mothersbrotherssistersfathers the point full stop