glass.cube(in.negative.void)
chained.palms(extended)
perfectly.flat—
trained(by.seamless.walls);
paper.thin;
no.one(listens.in);

sterile.fear-flavoured.air;
silence.cinches(limbs)
between(grief.and.rot)

twist.pulls(rust);
body.tastes(metal);
world.narrows(to.heartbeat);

lightning—violent—
vein-crack(across.green.sky);
afterimage:
figure(wire.wrapped);
wet.hair(plastered.to.forehead)

time.pressed;
remorseless;
against(his.mouth);
held(underwater);
lip(caught.mid-motion)

sculpted(by.darkness);
pain.looping(his.neck);
oxblood(seared.onto.retina):
accurate—
coil-hot;
violet-rimmed—
gone

set.trajectory
on(runaway.intuition)
drags(chains)

ferocious;
merciless

counting.loops
where(one.begins)
and(other.stops)

surface—
self.returned;
too.loud;
too.ragged—
panic.betrays

iron-heavy;
rope.twisted;
thumb.chemically_powdered;
palmar.vein(speaks(of.you));

slumped—
links.dragging;
magnified(in.enclosure);

time.elevated—motionless;
silver-flushed.salt
hardens(in.softness);
buttoned.apart

eyes(thriving.in.darkness);
remembering(your.shape);
black.holes(thinking.themselves.open);
destabilised;

palm(over.his.eyes);
dry-water.cheekbones;
shadow-cast—
breathing.synchronised

compliant;
head(tilted.exhale);
measured(from.behind);
fingertips.pleading—
hesitant

silver-clad.distance
ear(to.neck)—
liquefied

tortured;
unspent;
pristine;
thirsty

gasp(seizing—same.instant);
simultaneous—
distorting(acoustics)

silvered.prestige;
sequinned;
undeniable—

every.molecule.occupied;
rusted.loops(tangle);
spillover

[image credit: Hannibal, 2015; 70 Henrik, Pinterest]