Denotation

A Poem

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

From the utterance
of a labored voice
a substantial message
found tucked into the abstraction
Syntheses going
unmastered directions
You pose for your portrait
Excused from your bed
you shave lines into your chest
Escaping redundancy
getting on top of the brush
jumping on it with both feet
You have taken your sound
pressed into the trunk
into the sketches of bark
impediments or no
you have made a nice tombstone