a curious case of
anaphylactic shock
an allergic reaction
to anxietal pollen
forming a nonpermeable
strata over this
bronchial dementia
shortness of breath
shivering branches of
undeniable painthistle
reassembling broken
double helixical folly
into the ooze from which
this form was forceably
ejected from the womb
in which i was never
supposed to be grown
a tiny of red at every
shallow breath until
the world is alight
with flickering spots
beckoning me to return
to the nothingness
i so readily embodied